A Spanish church where priests wear jeans to celebrate Mass and hand out biscuits instead of communion wafers has so angered authorities that the Archbishop of Madrid is closing it down.At a time when the Catholic Church is struggling to cope with falling attendance the parish church of San Carlos Borromeo, in the working class district of Vallecas, is thriving with its congregation of former prisoners, recovering drug addicts and immigrants.
Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela has ordered the priest not to say Mass and said that the church would be handed over to a Catholic charity.
Father Javier Baeza, one of the priests, vowed to celebrate Mass in their usual way on Easter Sunday.
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