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A year into lockdown, Church in Netherlands fears permanent decline
A church is seen in Amsterdam, February 7, 2021. (Credit: Peter Dejong/AP.)
One year after the first ecclesial lockdown came into effect in the Netherlands, “ordinary parish life is partly falling away” and the crisis is accelerating the already existing problem of secularization.
One year after the first ecclesial lockdown came into effect in the Netherlands, “ordinary parish life is partly falling away” and the crisis is accelerating the already existing problem of secularization.
This is the conclusion of a study by the Dutch Catholic weekly
Katholiek Nieuwsblad, based on interviews with 21 priests from across the 7 Dutch dioceses.
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Pope Francis speaks during an audience with Trappists at the Vatican. The pope met those participating in the Trappists’ general chapter. (Photo: CNS/L’Osservatore Romano)
By Selinde van Dijk-Kroesbergen – Katholiek Nieuwsblad, Special to Crux
(Crux) — Koningshoeven Abbey in the Netherlands has launched an online platform for aspiring monks: eNovice. This digital novitiate is a world first, according to the Dutch Trappists. The purpose of this platform is to help men discern their vocation for the monastic life, said Jan-Willem Wits, communications advisor and project leader at eNovice.
In an interview with the Dutch Catholic weekly “Katholiek Nieuwsblad,” Wits – himself a lay connoisseur of religious life – says that life at the monastery is often romanticized.
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