Neither more nor less

By now everyone knows this story ,its been thoroughly presented by the conventional media : the Archdiocese needs money and communities suffer the loss of their church and parish .

This church near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel ,Our Lady of Vilnius , is the one Lithuanian parish in Manhattan . The church is located in , I was told by an older parishioner , what was once the heart of a Lithuanian community until the community was mostly demolished to make way for the Holland Tunnel .

As St. Brigid's in my East Village community and several other smaller old churches in the Archdiocese , Our Lady Of Vilnius is slated to be demolished . The parish learned of this just a very short time before these pictures were taken . They were locked out of their church by the Archdiocese without notice and insurance money that was to be used to repair the roof of the church ,the parishioners have been told , will be used to help pay for demolishing their church .

Here there is not much more that is significant that I can say other than that the real story is to be read in these parishioners faces .