Rally to save St Mary’s Catholic Church in Malaga NJ

Rally to save St Mary's MalagaJulie and Theo took a bus into Cam­den NJ this morn­ing to attend a rally in sup­port of St Mary’s. It’s one of dozens of churches that the Dio­cese of Cam­den has slated for clo­sure. St. Mary’s Father Romanowski was sched­uled to meet Bishop Galante today but the Bishop can­celed at the last minute. Chan­nel Six Action News pro­filed St Mary’s a few days ago and the video gives you a lit­tle idea why it’s a spe­cial lit­tle church.
More pic­tures of the St Mary’s rally here.

05/02/2008 – 7:49 pm | By Martin Kelley | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)
  • Anony­mous

    Best wishes.

  • Julie Hei­land

    Look here for the Courier Post arti­cle.
    Yes, there were def­i­nitely more than 75 of us there! Two full busses and some came in their own cars.
    For the bishop to not show up to a meet­ing he sched­uled with a priest is incred­i­bly rude, but a fairly tried strat­egy to try to dis­si­pate the energy of the ral­liers and cool the sit­u­a­tion down. I don’t think it was any acci­dent that he didn’t show. It’s much prefer­able for the mem­bers of the pro­posed closed churches to just “roll over.” Well not everybody’s gonna lie down and take it when the church is closed and their holy priest taken from them for no good rea­son and with­out dis­cus­sion.
    In any case, it looks like, from the arti­cle, that the dioce­san spokesper­son had more to say to the press than to our dear Fr. Romanowski. It is inter­est­ing to note that not only does St. Mary’s NOT have any debt or dif­fi­culty pay­ing its bills, it has a sig­nif­i­cant bequeath­ment that more than secures St. Mary’s. I’m sure the dio­cese is aware of this. What is the moti­va­tion? There are other churches in the dio­cese who sur­vived the cuts that are far less viable than St. Mary’s. And of course, spir­i­tu­al­ity aside, St. Mary’s is a lovely old church and unique in that respect, com­pared to the more mod­ern mon­strosi­ties that do God’s majesty no jus­tice.
    Please pray and act in sup­port of St. Mary’s and Fr. Romanowski! We need HOLY priests and HOLY parishes!!!