The Austrian Times website reports today (April 2, 2012) that Austrian priest Franz Lauterbacher is hailing success for a project to win back the faithful to the country's scandal-ridden Catholic Church by inviting people who have left the church to discuss their lack of faith -- in a brewery run by monks.
The Augustiner Brau brewery was founded in 1621 in Salzburg, and is still owned and run by monks today.
Austria's Catholic Church has seen record numbers of people leaving it in recent years, due mainly to a series of sex abuse scandals.
Father Lauterbacher said that at his first meeting in the brewery, nine people decided to return to the church, and that the numbers have been high at the regular meetings since then.
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