Why is church always closed?

Other than the specific hours of mass, it seems the doors of Long Island churches are always locked. If ever you want to stop in for a one-on-one session without the chanting crowd, you can't. That's not how I remember it. I feel like I was raised to think church doors were always ope. Anytime you needed the services of faith, stop on in. In Home Alone, doesn't Macaulay stop by during his off-peak hour of need?

In Newport, RI. there's an Episcopal church Chris has nicknamed heaven. Heaven is a small, quiet peaceful little building in the middle of nowhere country fields. Outside the building it has large trees, short stone walls and a couple random tombstones. Wind blows and leaves rustle. The sun speckles the ground between tree limbs and foliage. Outside it is perfect. Inside... it's locked.

The first time Chris brought me there we ran into this very old and very warm priest as he was leaving. He let us in so we could look around. While inside we made typical priest-young adult conversation. Like if and when we were going to get married. He also told us a story about a local marine who had died in battle and in homage the family had put up a beautiful shrine in the church that held 2 crossed marine swords. A couple days later some shithead went in the church and stole the swords. Since then, other than during mass, the doors have remained locked.

There's the difference—people can't be trusted anymore, even in a church. Happy Easter!