Wow, these people are really just losing their minds over this. I don't understand what they expect to happen though. The Catholics that haven't already fled the stinking corpse that is the Catholic Church aren't going to church. They can't keep all the churches open for two or three people. Those churches were designed for a time when the church was still considered perfect and Catholics felt compelled to attend mass. They can't be kept open now that people know better.
The organization supports five Boston churches where parishioners are sleeping inside to prevent the archdiocese from padlocking the doors.
We used to call that criminal trespass.
Some local parishioners are even asking the Vatican to intervene, and others seek the bishop's recall.
Ouch, the guy's just trying to balance the budget in tough times and they're going after his job. It makes you almost feel sorry for the guy, almost.
"We as a people have been silent too long," said Walsh, 59. More Catholics are now willing to speak out, believing that blind obedience to the Catholic Church played a role in the child-abuse cases involving priests, he said.
Maybe you should have been on the front lines back then when important things were happening instead of being silent then and bitching now when the issue is a stupid building.
Walsh has been requesting a meeting with the bishop to show him how Queen of Peace can be saved.
I'm sure he's hearing the same about every church in the diocese. He can't keep them all. These people are too selfish to realize they're not the only Catholics in South Jersey.
She and Walsh are cochairs of the Alternate Options Committee,
aka the Close Their Church, Not Ours Committee. Six months from now, when the spineless bishop finally caves into this campaign, we'll be hearing from all those churches.
and it just finished paying about $200,000 for a new church roof and renovations, Walsh said.
Maybe they should have checked with the diocese before laying out that kind of money. It's their own fault for making such a frivolous purchase when they weren't sure their parish would stay open.
"I want to bring them back to church," he said. The consolidation plan is designed to do this, by instilling new life in the parishes, he said.
If you had the ability to bring people back to the church you wouldn't be closing all these churches. Ten years from now you'll be closing even more churches because your ideas are bankrupt. You have nothing to offer people. Within the next twenty-five years, the Catholic Church will be a fringe religion practiced by a few whackos and a bunch of people in third-world countries who only stick around because they want the missionaries to continue giving them food. It will be completely dead in the Western World.
As for the picketing, Galante said he understood that people are emotional because they don't want change and are attached to their churches.
Violent resistance to change is part and parcel of Catholic teaching. You can't teach it for years and then bitch when they turn the hatred towards you.
People really need to get over this. Millions of Catholics have moved on and realized there are more important things than bowing before a statue and eating stale bread and shitty wine. That's healthy. These people can't expect everything to stand still just because they're really serious about it.
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