I CANNOT help feeling sorry for all the Catholics in our area, I never thought I would see the day when the Pope and the Catholic church would turn their backs on so many people by closing down the churches.
The first Catholic church in Ackworth was built by Pugin for Mrs Tempest at the Grange, Low Ackworth. Eagle House in High Ackworth was opened with rooms set aside for prayer. John Gully had a room at Ackworth Park set up as a chapel for his second wi
fe, who was a Catholic.
In the early 1900s the people of Ackworth raised money to build themselves a church at Moor Top and Mrs Baxter in the 1950s and 60s began to raise money to build a youth club on the land beside the church.
The people of Ackworth have worked so hard for their church over the years, I cannot see how the church could be sold without the people of Ackworth agreeing to it. Is it right that the people of Ackworth should have to travel from their village to church?
Do they realise there is no bus service on Sunday morning and on Sunday evening would anyone wish to stand out in the cold waiting for a bus that may or may not turn up? I think not.
Everyone talks about the King who made the Catholic people go underground – are they themselves behaving any better? Solve the problem before you close their church. You owe these faithful people that much. Shame on you for locking them out.
GRACE TUNE
Bell Lane, Ackworth
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