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The Atlanta Protestant church sees tradition as an obstacle. The excommunicated priest sees the bare hotel room as an obstacle and needs the visuals:<\/a><\/p>\n

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An ultra-inclusive splinter church led by an excommunicated Roman Catholic priest has moved from a hotel banquet room to a vacant Episcopal church, where the 300-member group will celebrate its first Masses in a church building this weekend.<\/p>\n

Hausen’s church now has a one-year lease with the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh for the former Epiphany Episcopal Church in Avalon, just outside Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

"We need some smells and bells," Hausen quipped when asked to explain the move Tuesday. "Now I have to get a stained-glass voice."<\/p>\n

Hausen said "a lot of people like that stuff and they think it’s really important" to be in a church.<\/p>\n

"I think the church is the people, not the building, but having an appropriate setting can be uplifting to people," Hausen said. "Also, there’s an artificial barrier about meeting in a hotel that I think keeps some people away."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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