The new vicar was recently officially introduced, in a public ceremony, to all the clubs and organisations in the village. Each welcomed him in the traditional manner, with a schnapps. After about 8 of them in the space of 10 minutes they were possibly not so welcome. So there's another reason against shared parishes, paramedics will need to be on standby if the next vicar, who is also likely to be elderly because most of them are now, must be officially welcomed in the traditional manner by clubs and organisations from three parishes. I'm not sure that downing about 20 schnapps one after the other is in the job description for Catholic Priest.
