"the selfish and the cruel people [rise] to the top"

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St. Marys
on January 21, 2010
Terrific energy is expended--civilizations are built up--excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks.

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, page 39

It's a good thing we've been promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against the Church. It gives us hope when the selfish and cruel are flexing their muscles...

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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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