Announced in New York – 31 parishes and 14 schools

At the Commonweal Blog, an interesting comment about the impact on Westchester County

And then, Detroit, closings and reconfiguring

Rocco Palmo has a Detroit-related post:

So, faced with the meltdown of the JPII Center (i.e. $40 million pledged), speculation about his impending (i.e. late summer) retirement and as his archdiocese of Detroit fixes to unveil its sizable reconfiguration plan (i.e. parish closings and consolidations) later today, Cardinal Adam Maida had a Come-to-Jesus yesterday — not with his own priests, of course (who are downright furious about the JPII Center boondoggle), but with the Baptist pastors of the inner city.