If it went to confession, the parish would need a backup, and have to pay both men time and a half.

After all, every parish needs a hall.

Your parishes, associations, schools and religious education programs need your cooperation and the enthusiasm of your faith.

Although parishes need approval from the diocese before a project can be undertaken, parishioners pay the cost through pledges and cash contributions.

The Rev. Robert Newman said the parish badly needs the shelter space back for its own programs.

"This is my parish-was "That's right," she said, "and your parish desperately needs your help.

These qualities, they said, would be essential in New York, where many financially struggling schools and parishes need to be consolidated or closed.

A civil parish need not cover the same area as an ecclesiastical parish, but in the case of Little Thetford, they do.

Shary realized the parish needed a larger facility.

The parish property had been sold by the archdiocese, and the parish needed confirmation that there were no longer human remains on site.