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Article: Catholic churches find their Cape overflowing
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 30, 1995
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MASHPEE -- Chip Moreau was a minute or two late for 10 o'clock
Mass in Christ the King Church last Sunday, which meant that the best
he could hope for was a place to stand.
A seat was out of the question. As usual, every pew in the
1,100-seat Roman Catholic church had been filled long before Mass
began. Even standing room was scarce: Scores of parishioners were
ranged along both walls and across the back of the church, packed in
cheek-by-jowl before stained-glass windows and votive candles.
"It's just exploded here," murmured the 39-year-old Moreau before
beginning a search for a place to pray, a quest that would take him
on a circuit all the way around the church.
The scene at Christ the ...