[Magdalen] Scranton Takes It On The Chin.

[Charles Wohlers]

Very true, re ethnicity, at least in cities. Not so much in the 'burbs or in 
rural areas.
Which reminds me that my research director used to say that his parents had 
a mixed marriage which was quite a scandal at the time. His father attended 
the Irish Catholic church while his mother grew up in the French-Canadian 
Catholic church (both in Taunton, Mass.)

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: ME Michaud
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2018 1:57 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Scranton Takes It On The Chin.

One of the problems I've seen in New England is that RC churches have
ethnicity.
(One can certainly argue that Episcopal churches have ethnicity, too, but
let's not go there.)
You're likely to see St. Joseph's across the street from St. Patrick's and
around the corner from St. Stanislas.
As these churches have consolidated, people have drifted away.

Also my own experience is that the RCs need educatin' re: funding.
Pledging isn't the way their churches have been financed.
We were all excited when RCs began to arrive during the last round of
exposees.
But none of them pledged.
I think they were waiting for the second collection or something.
-M


On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I concur with David's impression.
>