By Andrew Esolen – from Crisis Magazine
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“We’re human beings, not calculators. The building that was once my parochial school and the parish hall still stands, but it belongs to the borough now. What is left of it? Certainly the statue of Thomas Aquinas at the entry had to be taken down. The top floor is no longer a basketball court and a stage. There’s something like a death when that happens. Make no mistake about this. Whenever human beings invest their love and their worship into a place, quite aside from its being sanctified by the Church, it becomes for them a holy place, and as such it demands reverence, and we should give our utmost to see it through the rough times. How can churchmen fail to understand this? Utilitarianism is self-devouring; it’s a disutility to believe in it; only the blessedly impractical ever leave their mark upon this world. Never should the shutting of any church, no matter how small, be viewed as anything other than a failure or a death. We should move heaven and earth to prevent it.”
But Homer Schmidt from the Lilies of the Field? I think our author has misinterpreted a joke from that film…
Source:
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/against-the-senseless-destruction-of-churches
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