8.22.21 A Possible Future of the Church, Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Send us Fan MailTwenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle ALink to Sunday Mass Readings Link to Cover ArtA Vision of the Future Churchby Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI(Excerpted from a talk in 1969 before he was pope)From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge—a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity.As the number of her adherents diminishes, so she will lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, it…