Ministry: May 2004 Archives

Holy Trinity Church, the home of Boston's indult Mass, is profiled in the Globe, and now the secret's out: it's a growing parish with a lot of young families, not a service for a shrinking bunch of seniors. We expect to be on the parish closure list when it comes out tomorrow, but I'm glad the case for keeping the church has been made publicly.

A panel of the Archdiocese of Boston has proposed an additional 37 parishes for closure, alongside those already recommended by local "cluster" consultations. It's not clear whether these are all additions to the earlier list, or whether some of the choices are alternatives to those originally proposed.