1. In recent years dwindling inner-city congregations and a shortage of priests has forced the Catholic Church to close urban parishes. 2. Larger urban parishes like Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette have an easier time finding teachers than smaller, rural parishes. 3. Many urban parishes and parochial schools are in poor financial health. 4. New drama about a Catholic priest trying to keep his urban parish afloat while he battles his own personal demons. 5. The archdiocese has established apostolates to act as liaisons to the new arrivals, who have helped revive urban parishes. 6. The debt was accumulated over the last several decades, in some cases as urban parishes built facilities for Catholics who then fled for the suburbs. 7. The first two were from urban parishes that ultimately did not hire him. 8. The series is about a Catholic priest struggling to keep his urban parish going, struggling with his own faith, and struggling with temptations of a temporal nature. |
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