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As many people know, New York is one of the archdioceses that has been feeling the pain of parish closings. And some parishioners aren’t taking it sitting down (or even kneeling). From the New York Times: The closing of their church was among the more devastating of events to have struck the congregants of Our…

That could be the title of the window below, which adorns the sacristy of a church here in Queens: You can read the story behind it right here.

The saga of St. Mary’s in Brisbane, Australia has attracted a surprising amount of attention. The blog Te Deum laudamus has a write up, and no less a luminary than Fr. Z. has also weighed in. If you want to know what all the fuss is about, just take a look below. UPDATE: CNA has…

More parish closings and consolidations may be on the way — this time, in South Dakota: Thirty-five eastern South Dakota Catholic parishes could lose their regular Masses by 2012 under a plan led by Bishop Paul Swain of the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls. Whether the churches, which are mostly in smaller towns, will eventually…
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