Attached to liturgical aberrations, parishioners abandon Minneapolis church

February 18, 2009

Parishioners attached to four decades of liturgical aberrations have abandoned St. Stephen’s Church in Minneapolis in the year since Father Joseph Williams became pastor. The columnist reporting on the story is admittedly biased: “I saw the first guitar mass, the start of the American Indian Movement and gay rights. We sang Bob Dylan songs instead of hymns. Except the answer, my friend, was living in all men … I left the church, in both senses of the word, years ago. I followed the prophets that seemed to speak to me at the time, whether it was Sartre, Rand or Hunter S. Thompson. My own Church of One. Unlike those who recently left, however, I never expected the church to come with me.”

 

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Further information:

• 'We're taking on water,' and new priest knows he can't walk on it (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
• The push for conformity shoves away parishioners (2008) (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
• St. Stephen’s Church