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| photo - Lou Gould |
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| photo - Lou Gould |
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| photo - Lou Gould |
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| photo - Lou Gould |
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| photo - Lou Gould |
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| photo - Lou Gould |
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Was unable to attend a meeting of former parishioners yesterday, regarding
the closing of the Parish church of Saint Joan of Arc in Harrowgate
Philadelphia.
A grade school friend, Lou Gould, managed to take some great photos
of the old parish church and the people who were once a part of this parish,
educated in its school.
The school is now a charter school. The old convent is a half-way
house of sorts for pregnant teens and the church will remain a worship site for
no doubt a few years until the endless bureaucracy of the Vatican signs off on
the official decommissioning of a church off the company’s books.
This thing of closing schools and churches has been going on over
the past few decades, more so in the last decade of the child clergy abuse
trials and settlements that go on forever and drain the capital of the
archdiocese for lawyers instead of teacher unions or the needs of inner
city (minorities) children to an old fashioned Catholic school education.
These pictures of Saint Joan of Arc’s remind me how the U.S. tax
laws subsidized the moving of the population via highways to the suburbs after
WWII.
Too late for demographics of the future for these inner city gems
that get so casually tossed off the corporate spreadsheet of the archdiocese of
Philadelphia.
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