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Ogden church converted into drug, alcohol rehab center
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Oct 9, 2017
When St. Mary’s parish in Odgen, Utah outgrew their church, they sold the building and moved to a larger church in the suburbs. Now the old church building is being used to help people again, this time as a drug rehab center.
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Holy spirits? Closed churches find second life as breweries
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Oct 6, 2017
As churches close due to dwindling congregations and parish mergers, some are being given new life: As breweries and brewpubs. With stained glass, brick walls and large sanctuaries ideal for holding vats and lots of drinkers, churches renovated into breweries attract beer lovers but can grate on the spiritual sensibilities of clergy and worshipers.
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Why can’t weddings be held in a closed church?
- Church
- Sep 28, 2015
Q. I am having a hard time understanding why a Catholic church closed by a bishop can no longer be used for Masses, weddings, and funerals. For more than 100 years, this particular church — built by my great-great-grandparents — was considered sacred ground. Now my grandson wants to get
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Members’ 11-year vigil defies plan to close church in Boston Archdiocese

Jul 10, 2015

SCITUATE, Mass. — It was a bright Sunday morning at St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church, and the building’s stained glass windows cast a jewel-colored glow over the service. An elegant, 81-year-old woman led a few dozen congregants in Catholic prayer. A single flutist accompanied the hymns. But there was no

Profane, but not sordid, and blessed by the Archdiocese of Boston

Church

Jun 15, 2015

Three years ago, Cardinal Sean O’Malley designated the Holy Trinity Church in the South End of Boston for secular purposes — in official Church language, “for profane but not sordid use.” That decree triggered a $7 million sale of the building to developers and a plan — just approved by

What Jesus would — and Cardinal O’Malley should — do

Faith

Jun 10, 2015

Here’s the storybook ending. Today Sean O’Malley, archbishop of Boston, stuns all, backs down, and lets parishioners of St. Frances X. Cabrini Parish in Scituate, Mass., keep the church he’s shut down and wants to unload — but which parishioners have battled to keep open. For 11 years. Around-the-clock. Seven