Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Church In Crisis (Czech Republic)

The Church in the Czech Republic faces the double challenge of a lack of priests and a crisis of the family, says one of its bishops.

On a recent visit to the international charity Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Vojtech Cikrle of Brno said: "After the fall of Communism, the situation of the Church is not easy in the Czech Republic.

"We have only 25 seminarians from the five Bohemian dioceses and 70 from the three dioceses of Moravia. "In my diocese, more than 50% of about 1.5 million inhabitants are baptized. Mass attendance, however, is at just about 100,000."

Bishop Cikrle also spoke about a crisis of families, citing a divorce rate of about 67% and noting that "many of our young people do not marry because they do not want to make a commitment."

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