In 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced plans
to close or merge more than eighty parish churches. Scores of
Catholics 28,000, by the archdiocese s count would be asked to
leave their parishes. The closures came just two years after the
first major revelations of clergy sexual abuse and its cover up.
Wounds from this profound betrayal of trust had not healed.
In the months that followed, distraught parishioners occupied
several churches in opposition to the closure decrees. Why did
these accidental activists resist the parish closures, and what do
their actions and reactions tell us about modern American
Catholicism? Drawing on extensive fieldwork and with careful
attention to Boston s Catholic history, Seitz tells the stories of
resisting Catholics in their own words, and illuminates how they
were drawn to reconsider the past and its meanings. We hear them
reflect on their parishes and the sacred objects and memories they
hold, on the way their personal histories connect with the history
of their neighborhood churches, and on the structures of authority
in Catholicism.
Resisters describe how they took their parishes and religious
lives into their own hands, and how they struggled with everyday
theological questions of respect and memory; with relationships
among religion, community, place, and comfort; and with the meaning
of the local church. "No Closure "is a story of local drama and
pathos, but also a path of inquiry into broader questions of
tradition and change as they shape Catholics ability to make sense
of their lives in a secular world.
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