Graveyard Church

In the Diocese of Aachen, they have decided to turn the inside of St Josef's Church into a graveyard.

One can choose whether your ashes (promoting the very unfortunate practice of cremation) are to be buried either of these



or this, depending on your financial circumstances. They even provide bank details on the website. To be buried in Church, used to be an enormous priviledge. Now anyone can do it, for a price.




This is how they expect the interior layout of the Church to develop.

A stream of water will run through the centre of the Church.

If you have any doubts, you can visit the Church on the (Ultra-Ecumenical) Night of Open Churches on 29th September. They will be an opening Mass at 17.00 on All Saints, and a Latin Requiem on All Souls.

What more significant symbol could there be for the death of the European Church, when instead of Masses and the Faithful, the Church is filled with the dead. The only good side of this is that the Bishop of Aachen (who once said that God is not Catholic) has promised that redundant Churches will not be turned into mosques in his Diocese. But he did give one Church to the radical protestant Vineyard Group which preaches anything but Catholicism week by week.


The Church quite recently has been used for advertising.


The Parish of Corpus Christi is now the Parish of Corpus Christi and St Josephs. However, someone, even the devil himself, must have thought it a good joke to call this disturbingly desolate and empty Church, Corpus Christi.
As one German writer has put it, when statues are removed and altars are no longer used, evil spirits perch. At very least, another form of death but this one far worse, as it is a spiritual one.

Summing it all up. An alien image of Christ in St Gregory's Church, Aachen