FOR once, the RC Archdiocese of Liverpool is not under fire for downsizing its property porfolio of precious churches.
Instead, the Diocese of Shrewsbury is being censured by petition-wielding parishioners for plans to sell St Peter’s and St Paul’s, New Brighton, whose huge copper dome on the Wirral skyline garnered it the nickname of the “dome of home� for incoming sailors.
The 1935 Grade II-listed church needs £1m of repairs.
The diocese offers four options: 1) repair; 2) sell for redevelopment; 3) de-list and abandon; 4) consider any other ideas. Is that it? Enough to shake your faith, eh?