For as long as its trumpets deliver their annual fanfare of colour among the headstones of past generations of parishioners, they will give its creator a special kind of immortality.
To read more about the position of Irish churches on gay marriage, read here, this analysis on why that position may be unconvincing, and this piece on the priests who are urging their parishioners to vote yes.
Leadership and passion are two key qualities that the Rev Richard Ewichu has brought to the project on behalf of his Katine parishioners, the real beneficiaries of three years of development work.
Better known to parishioners by his middle name James, he was made priest-in-charge at St Mary's Anglican church in Halewood in 1966, Dorries told the Mail on Sunday (MoS).
The Rev Samuel Parris betrayed his humble parishioners in the hope of becoming accepted by the local establishment.
No mere adjunct to the main man, Tom Hollander, she is given plenty of meat to tuck into as she struggles with work ambitions, home life, parenthood and the various parishioners who use her home as an unofficial Citizens Advice Bureau.
I was in a church in a small Co Leitrim townland of 900 people not long ago when the priest thanked parishioners for helping out flood victims in Pakistan – they had put over €3,000 on the plate for the poor in Pakistan.
But polls show a disconnect between the beliefs of Catholic hierarchy and those of parishioners: a poll taken in May found that 64% of American Catholics say homosexuality should be accepted by society, compared with 58% of all Americans.
The parishioners were trying to carry out a burial at a parish cemetery which the local government had closed; the government plans to relocate it and build a tourist resort on the site.
Before the tsunami had even struck Sri Lanka, Mr Warren was calling a vast network of churches in South-East Asia who got parishioners to safety, and e-mailing an even vaster network of clubs in southern California.
At the collapsed La Union Protestant church ten parishioners with crowbars pulled out five bodies on January 25th.Haiti was already a failed state before the disaster.
