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Local churches have been in the spotlight a good deal lately--from the protests of the size of the Knafel Center project by the parishioners at the Swedenborg Chapel to some students' irritation with the frequent peals of the new bells of St. Paul's Church. It's a question...
I was disappointed by the negative and, frankly, trite responses from students interviewed in your article concerning the restored bells of St. Paul's Church (News, Feb. 17). In lieu of praise for the conservation of an unusual civic instrument was all-too-Harvardian whining. The sundry 15-minute strikes...
Bells are not the issue. Some people just don't like bells, and this does not upset me in the slightest. What does upset me is the vapid, parochial attitude the quoted comments illuminate and the kind of self-absorbed, self-preoccupied refutation of community and the communal experience they...
Savage said the bells have spiritualsignificance. "The Catholic Church is asacramental church, and the bells are a veryconcrete sign of God calling people to hispresence," he explained.
But river-dwellers who curse the bells may takeheart. The original plan at St. Paul's called fora daily ringing at 6 a.m. In deference to thechurch's sleeping neighbors, the idea was dropped