I agree with what @Jacqueline Hyde said above, regarding the church being somewhat of a social aspect. My mother attended church for that reason as well.
@Morgan coming from a town of 700 people, the church was THE social force in my parents' life. especially as my mom worked there so didn't even have a group of outside work friends like my dad did.
Update on the Louvre Robbery: there are four more being arrested today, unfortunately there's no trace of the jewels being found since October 19th according to BBC News.
You know, there was a question from one of my fb pages I follow that asked, if time travel were possible what event would you visit in history and change. My response was that I'd stop or make sure Hitler were never born. And then I began thinking about it. And thought....how would that change ACME? Would we still be Anerican and international? Would we still have The united nations and NATO?