Comment on Outsourcing Of Mass To India Hit By Global Financial Crisis

Outsourcing Of Mass To India Hit By Global Financial Crisis

It is dawn in Kerala, a palm frond of a state in India's South West. As the sun's first rays hit the church steeple, a Holy Mass is being conducted in the local Malayalam language. Only, the prayer is dedicated to a newborn by his Catholic family half a world away in the United States. Requests for these so-called Mass Intentions, or prayers offered for a specific reason, pour into India from the United States, Canada and Europe, where there is a huge shortage of priests. This outsourcing to faraway India is a quaint practice that has been called "religious outsourcing." But now, the severe global economic crisis and bankruptcies in Western churches are hitting even this unusual practice.

 

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