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Jim Scott wrote:

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Extremist sect sets up church

Mar 28 2006

By Orlando Crowcroft, The Evening Chronicle

It could almost be from the Da Vinci Code. An extremist sect of the Roman
Catholic Church, an empty church, a pot of cash and the threat of
excommunication by the last Pope.

But this tale of intrigue is real and is being played out on Tyneside where
the sect is spending £500,000 of Lottery cash to restore a run-down church.

St Cuthbert's in Bensham, Gateshead, has stood empty for 16 years. But now
the John Dobson-designed building is set to re-open as the North East base
of a fundamentalist society rejected by mainstream Catholics.

The Society of St Pius X, threatened with excommunication by the late Pope
John Paul II, aims to celebrate its first Latin mass in the Bensham Road
church next year.

The £513,500 Heritage Lottery grant will pay for the former Anglican church,
built between 1840-50, to be repaired and refurbished.
--
Jim
Tyneside UK

Sounds like it's more to do with protecting the building than the
people in it but then they've always been giving money to strange
things
--
Paul ("You bruise too easily" So said Mary)
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