[redleghunter]

Is CNY seeing a lot of the parish closings and Catholic school closings as in lower NY state?

[MacMattico]

Not that I see. I live in a small village that has a vibrant Catholic community. A neighboring town in the past 10 years has had to build two new Catholic Churches to accommodate more Catholics, converts as well as those that have moved into the many new housing developments in the area. We have had some schools closed over the years but I think some of that is because many families could not afford reasonable Catholic school tuition plus their enormous local school tax bill. We thought of sending our children to Catholic school— but we chose to live where we do because of the small, mostly traditional public school here. I wish I would have sent my
girls to the local Catholic elementary/jr high school. They are turning out wonderfully intelligent, polite, helpful Catholic teenagers. And they are not all liberals like I know someone will say.