These are videos of Clinton, Iowa churches "before" and demolition videos of "after." What did they wind up with in the end when their churches were needlessly closed and destroyed and all the abuse settlement money paid? Yes, you guessed it: an ugly, generic McChurch that looks somewhat like St. Matthew's Baptist in Williamstown, and a little like the new Assumption in Galloway. The new church, "Prince of Peace," opened up within the past year.
So you think because your church is a "primary worship site" everything's A-ok? You think that the manner in which we worship--a new-fangled "church in the round" as opposed to, well, what we see below--is inconsequential? You think that a church's consecration is something with which we may easily and summarily dispense, despite Church teaching to the contrary? If that is the case you may feel right at home in the "New Church," or, what is called by our current bishop, "the Church of South Jersey." What you see below is nothing less than a tragedy. There is more to come on the Clinton, Iowa debaucle of the 1990s.
So you think because your church is a "primary worship site" everything's A-ok? You think that the manner in which we worship--a new-fangled "church in the round" as opposed to, well, what we see below--is inconsequential? You think that a church's consecration is something with which we may easily and summarily dispense, despite Church teaching to the contrary? If that is the case you may feel right at home in the "New Church," or, what is called by our current bishop, "the Church of South Jersey." What you see below is nothing less than a tragedy. There is more to come on the Clinton, Iowa debaucle of the 1990s.