(By Marilyn Stewart, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans). Four years after selling the property that had been the congregation’s home for 91 years, Carrollton Presbyterian Church had successfully given away the proceeds–totaling almost $900,000–and brought its 162-year history to a close. Though an April 30 worship service marked a formal dissolution, the church’s story ends on a…
By Marilyn Stewart The 20-member congregation of Carrollton Presbyterian Church took down its Christmas tree and turned off the lights at its 2032 S. Carrollton Ave. New Orleans location for the last time on Dec. 22 when members said goodbye to the sanctuary that had been their home for 91 years. The move to a…
Documents that had been under protective seal since Dec. 4, 2009, including 441 emails between presbytery officials, lawyers and the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Office of the General Assembly staff concerning the case of Carrollton Presbyterian Church v. Presbytery of South Louisiana (PSL) have been released to the public as ordered by a Louisiana judge. Judge…
Sanctions have been imposed on a Presbyterian Church (USA) presbytery in the amount of $390,000 after the court “unavoidably” concluded that the presbytery had “in bad faith advanced frivolous arguments in support of a claimed right it knew had no legal or evidentiary support.” In the matter of Carrollton Presbyterian Church v. Presbytery of South…