Parishioners at Light of the World Roman Catholic Church do not sit in pews or kneel on kneelers. Instead, they have folding chairs and garden-style sponge kneepads.
When the church was built in 1984 at Bowles and Kipling, the idea was to save money by having one large multipurpose space rather than a church and a community center.
The "crying room," where parents with babies can be seated behind glass, is situated behind a bank of French doors, making it so hard to see the altar that the occupants watch Mass on a monitor.