Buffalo’s influx of Eastern European Roman Catholic Immigres stopped long ago gamecock, and Buffalo herself is contracting and has been for yrs, so much so my Grandparents RCC Church shuttered well over 20 yrs ago.
A pity really, as they are beautiful Churches.
Indeed.. many are sold to the Baptists in the inner city or the Muslims to make Mosques from.
Do you remember St Gerard's? That is being taken apart stone by stone to be rebuilt in NC somewhere.. that kind of Architecture is not in the books anymore ... and many are being just shut and allowed to decay