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A 45 year old priest of African descent is serving a parish in France. He says:

“As an African, I’m surprised at the indifference toward religion here,” Father Longo told Catholic News Service. “But there’s plenty of good will and a lot of lay participation. I’ve had no problems being accepted.”

This the direction Europe’s been moving for a while – toward postmodernism, and a postmodernism that has no use for religion (at least not traditional religion where there’s a God and right and wrong and stuff like that.) The War on Christmas on this side of the Atlantic, we might think, is pretty rough. Over there, political correctness has gone so far that one dares not even mention their faith. Lots of beautiful cathedrals stand empty in Europe. In the US, it’s not that bad – but in Africa, Mother Church is growing exponentially. So, men training to be priests from Africa are being shipped around all over the world to fill the vacancies. I hope a story like this won’t ever be written about our continent.