Diocese of Columbus Closing Fifteen Parishes

Diocese of Columbus Closing Fifteen Parishes

The Diocese of Columbus is closing 15 parishes this year, nine of them within the City of Columbus itself. That represents 14 percent of the total number of parishes — 108 — in the Diocese. Most Rev. Earl Fernandes, bishop of Columbus, has been leading a process...
The Youngstown Option

The Youngstown Option

In a comment thread on Facebook connected to my last post a commenter wished that I “would stop agitating on the side for a dubiously preferable Youngstown merger.” He insisted that my efforts toward “the Youngstown option” undermined my...