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hunter

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5. They seem to be a lively and viable church in our majority Catholic community.
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 11:50 AM
Jul 2013

The Presbyterian Church is near the downtown high school, with many after school programs, and has a modern media savvy face.

It also looks like they have a large population of divorced former Catholics. I'll speculate that our unusually liberal and cosmopolitan Catholic community is sometimes a depressing place for divorced people. Frankly, unmarried and (sometimes unsuccessfully...) celibate Catholic clergy are frequently clueless about issues of marriage and divorce.

Reading the article in the original post it seems less like the church has had trouble attracting immigrants and "people of color" and more likely they stayed put in their buildings as the younger community left town for greener pastures.

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