SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Tuesday 5 August 2014
TWO churches have been shut within Scotland’s largest Catholic diocese as congregations brace themselves for a wave of parish closures and mergers across the west of the country.
All Saints in Glasgow’s Barmulloch area closed in recent weeks, with a service presided over by the country’s leading Catholic cleric, Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, marking the event.
The church was built in the late 1960s and sits in the shadow of the notorious Red Road Flats, which are earmarked for imminent demolition.
With all but one of the high-rise blocks now empty, numbers attending All Saints have dropped dramatically in recent years.
The closure was preceded by that of St Philips in Ruchazie, in the north-east of Glasgow.
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