“More of the same, this is Reconfiguration 2,” said Peter Borre, head of the Council of Parishes, a group formed to help churches fight closings. He, and others who fought reconfiguration, see this plan as another way to close churches eventually.
“Because what’s very clear is that as these collaboratives are formed, within each collaborative someone will be voted off the island,” Borre said. “That’s how I’ve read it through leaked minutes of the council of priests, and that’s how it is shaping up.”