‘Everybody Wants a Revolution, but Nobody Wants to Do the Dishes’

Susan Bigelow Reynolds The Atlantic
(May 23, 2019)

Almost a decade ago, as a young graduate student in theology, I lived for a year in the rectory of a Catholic parish.

Like many other parishes in Boston faced with an ever-worsening clergy shortage, St. Mary of the Angels did not have a priest in residence. Rather than allowing the creaky 19th-century Victorian estate house that doubled as the church’s gathering space to stand empty, the parish made the decision to open the doors to laypeople. (read more)