Painful Question: Why do so many Catholic parishes die?

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7. In Europe, disinterest in organized religion has already grown in many parts.

It's rather like "throwing good money after bad." Financial support is slowly drying up as there is less emotional dependence on organized religion for economic security and social cohesion. When visiting European countries, it's surprising to see large churches boarded up or turned into tourist attractions. The sexual assault epidemic, exposed now as an apparently necessary feature of religious practice among the clergy that reaches into the past decades and centuries, pours gasoline on the fire.