Someone's blog entry

This link is to someone's personal blog called "Philly Chit Chat." It's just a short piece with pictures about going back to Audubon to visit family and friends for the July 4th holiday. Here's a snippet:

Jeff, Julie, Jody Shaw and I all went to Paul VI High School and attended St. Vincent Pallotti Church. The Camden Diocese has chosen to close this church and merge it with one in the neighboring towns of Haddon Heights or Oaklyn. All I can think of is the literally the Sins of our Fathers are being paid by our children.

Again, it just goes to show that the "average Joe" doesn't support the "Galante, McGrath & vollmer Program". (Ahem, I mean, "process." Sorry, Ms. vollmer.) Who in the world would want to see their church close? As a matter of fact, I went to church this morning to a different church than I usually go to, and overheard at least two conversations regarding the church closing fiasco and Bishop Galante, and that was just on my way to the cry room. Let's just say it wasn't positive. The people involved were a couple of ushers and choir members, too. This is not what I would call an "activist" parish by any stretch of the imagination, either.

Click here to read the piece.

Why Save St. Mary's?

What's true for OL Queen of Peace, Pitman & Assumption, Wildwood Crest is also true for St. Mary's Malaga:

"The people in Pitman bought that ground and built that church and it belongs to them. You can't just take it away."

-Anthony Mecca, Queen of Peace Parish, Pitman (also on the slate for closure), May 8, 2008

"This is God's house. Let us live here with God as we've done all these years."

-Fred Spiewak, Assumption Parish, Wildwood Crest, June 11, 2008

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