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Sat 05 May 2011Church decline 'a crisis in slow motion'
THE WIDESPREAD decline in church attendance and rapid growth in apathy towards religion were addressed in vivid terms by a report presented to the Church of Ireland General Synod in Armagh, yesterday.
The commission on ministry report by the Archdeacon of Tuam Gary Hastings said that “metaphors of cancer and the Titanic may be too dramatic; it’s more a matter of slow, quiet respectable deflation, a gentle haemorrhaging allowing us to drift off to sleep in the damp and hallowed halls of elder glory.
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