Their numbers sure aren’t great here in Peachtree City. I was talking about St. Andrews in the Pines. They’ve been advertising like mad in the local paper, and they’ve put up a sign boasting that they are affiliated with the Diocese of Atlanta, but evidently those tactics aren’t drawing folks in. A letter to the local paper last week flat-out accused the remaining remnant of lying about the facts of the break-up, and I think most of the locals realize that the letter-writer was on target.
Is the paper on line? I would love to see THAT exchange.
I of course left the church back in 2003, but I still watch with the can't-tear-your-eyes-away fascination of somebody witnessing a train wreck.
The rector of our former parish (the guy I thought was such a jerk) has run into serious trouble of his own and has been inhibited and deposed from his position. Money problems, from what I hear from friends still in the parish (and yes, I am trying to get them to flee from the wrath to come, but they were raised Baptist and they won't even come visit our Catholic parish.) I think it was in the Atlanta paper. (I am praying not to even think "serves you right, you nasty man" but it keeps popping into my head.)