New citizens write their names on hearts to be displayed on the outside of St. Rita of Cascia Church in Bedford Park, Illinois, during a Pastoral Migratoria program March 30. Pastoral Migratoria is a parish-based, immigrant-to-immigrant ministry that began in the Chicago Archdiocese in 2009 and it includes a citizenship program. (CNS/Chicago Catholic/Karen Callaway)
by Peter Feuerherd
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Where do all those former Catholics go? In the Philadelphia area, some are landing in what are called independent congregations that mimic the Catholic Church but are outside its bounds. They range from Latin-language traditionalists to those who accept women as priests.
[Peter Feuerherd is a correspondent for NCR's Field Hospital series on parish life and is a professor of journalism at St. John's University, New York.]
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