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In 2004, a group of angry parishioners in Massachusetts began a sit-in at their parish to protest its closing. They’re still there. From The Boston Globe: It has been three years since the Archdiocese of Boston, as part of its controversial church closing plan, locked parishioners out of St. Frances X. Cabrini in Scituate. At…

We’re seeing it here in Brooklyn, and it’s happening everywhere: ethnic parishes, built by the blood, sweat and tears of Slavs, Italians, Poles and Germans, are rapidly disappearing. Immigrants are moving to the suburbs, and their children are scattering. Here’s a glimpse at what that means for the industrial area of Allentown, Pennsylvania: It’s Polish…

I’m back. Regular readers – and I know there are one or two out there – may have noticed my absence last week. Tuesday morning, I finished throwing a few things into my Travelpro and dragged it out to a cab and headed for LaGuardia and, ultimately, Conyers, Georgia. There, I spent four days at…

A resident, holding up a baby, struggles to cross a flooded street due to heavy rains caused by tropical storm Noel, in la Plaine, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007. Photo: from AP/Logan Abassi, MINUSTAH
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