Churchs Feel The Crime Wave..

Untill recent years, Austrialian churchs were generally left unlocked,
even when no services were being conducted.

But things have changed now, reports the newspaper The Weekend
Australian , because of robberies, break-in's , vandalism to church
buildings , and a number of instances in which priests have been attacked.

" Most of our parishes are now locking their churchs up, I'm afraid,
I think thats very sad , " said Catholic archbishop John Bathersby.

" I think there's been a breakdown , in the reverance for religion.
I think the whole secularisation of society has really brought a state of
affairs where many people don't see the Church as any different from
any other instituation in society, and therefore that special aura of
respect for it has disappeared.

Some people see a church as just another building..