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The Renovation Resistance Movement By Michael S. Rose |
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Some Catholics have decided to protest the unwanted and unnecessary church renovations being forced upon them.
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The following is a lecture delivered in Rochester, New York on February 22, 2003, on the eve of the renovation of the Rochester Cathedral.
I’d like to begin this afternoon by reading to you a letter from four parishioners of St. John the Baptist Church in Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania. By way of introduction let me give you a brief background about that parish. In the year 2000, the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown announced that it would be merging six parishes into one. Four of the parish church buildings would be sold or otherwise ceased to be used as churches. The two remaining church buildings would serve as the two locations for a single parish under a single pastor. As if that wasn’t bad enough for the Catholics of those six parishes, one of the buildings—St. John the Baptist Church—was renovated in a drastic...
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