' The churches in America are places of business. They've become sellers and purveyors of flesh. They're whorehouses. The national cathedral is an abomination.' Those are the views of Mitch Snyder, a leading Christian activist in Washington DC.
MITCH SNYDER is white.
' Power corrupts, but power is a reality. It's what we have and it doesn't scare me a bit.'
Says John Walker , the new bishop of the traditionally white Anglo-Saxon and Protestant Episcopalians in Washington. JOHN WALKER is black. leuan Davies tells of some of the contradictions which surround the building of a vast new cathedral in that city of social conflicts which is the capital of the United States.
Film editor SAM GUPTA
Producer SELWYN RODERICK BBC Cymru/Wales