Many Catholic Churches to Close

While this doesn’t look like it will affect any local Catholic churches right now, there was some pretty significant news from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany this week:

As reported by the Albany Times Union.
“Roughly 20 percent of worship sites in the 164-parish Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany will close or merge in an unprecedented restructuring plan expected to be released this month, Bishop Howard Hubbard said Wednesday.”

Read about it here.
See the video of the bishop here.