[netmilsmom]

>>In many cases, places where people are leaving the churches empty are places where people are leaving period. <<

Exactly! People are crying in Detroit because they are closing and clustering parishes.

I keep trying to tell them, the entire state should be either closed or clustered.

[Tax-chick]

Last one to leave Michigan, please turn out the lights. You’d be welcome in Charlotte - there’s even a regular Polish Mass, held at the diocesan high school chapel, and “specials” at St. Matt’s, which has more congregants than some cities I’ve lived in.

[boatbums]

Detroitistan? Dearbornistan? Most of these northern cities are being overtaken by Muslim immigrants and the churches converted to mosques. I'd be getting out, too, if I was there!