We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome.

当时我们正站在一个教堂塔楼的顶上，是父亲把我从罗马的家里带到这个离家不远的意大利小镇楼顶上来的，我不明白他要做什么。

More than twice the number of people have left the church so far this year as in all of 2009, says Father Peter, the local priest.

当地神父彼得说，今年至今为止，离开教会的人数已是2009年的两倍多。

He also was the manager of a hundred-seat theatre that his father had created in an abandoned church.

他父亲在废弃的教堂的基础上建了一个容纳百人的小剧院，他担任经理。