If Your Name's Not On The List Then You Can't Take Eucharist
Parishioners have formed a human chain around a vicarage to stop bishops from sacking their priest who has been accused of drunkenness.
People in Janiszewo, north-central Poland, are standing outside the vicarage where Father Edmund Pluskota, 69, lives and monitoring anyone who arrives to see him.
They claim he's unpopular with church authorities because he doesn't twist churchgoers arms for collections and donations.
Parishioner Jan Karbowy, 60, said: "I know the priest. This talk of an alcohol problem is rubbish. We think it is all because he doesn't force anyone to pay up."
The previous priest, Father Jack Hackett, had spent many a happy year behind the cordon of parishioners.
Arthur was rubbish as a bell ringer but brilliant as a minder.
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