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What drives people away from the Catholic Church?

February 28, 2008 By admin

“It’s other people.

“It’s the priest who condescendingly tells a grieving daughter, after her mother’s funeral, ‘Now you can really grow up. You know, we never truly become adults until after our parents die.’

“It’s the deacon who refuses to anoint a baby at a parish baptism because the family arrived late.

“It’s pastor who won’t take the time to listen to a teenage girl’s problems because ‘it’s just hormones.’

“These are real examples from people I know…”

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