Why is the Catholic Church in Such a Mess?

Dwight Longenecker
3 min readAug 20, 2020

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Let’s face it squarely. The Catholic Church is in crisis. The largest denomination in America is former Catholics. Numbers of priests, nuns and brothers have plummeted drastically. The priests we do have are old and ready to retire and to replace them we are importing priests from the developing world — from countries that have their own desperate need for priests. Laypeople have abandoned the church in droves…

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Dwight Longenecker

Catholic priest, author and speaker. Read his blog, browse his books and be in touch at dwightlongenecker.com