As a newspaper religion writer, I covered the closing of 14 parishes and ministries in the Archdiocese of Miami more than six years ago.
I heard much the same stories in those parishes at the time. People mourned that they'd grown up there, and so had their children. They wrote letters, held protests and complained that the archbishop didn’t listen to them. The difference, not to boast too much, is that I got archdiocesan officials to give their side.
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