In a parallel universe (Pennsylvania), parishioners of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Wilkes-Barre, PA will attend their last Mass on Sunday.
There are many parallels to Immaculate Mary of Yonkers:
"St. Mary’s of the Immaculate Conception was founded in 1845 and over the next several decades, became the “mother church” for Catholics in the Wyoming Valley."
In addition, "The 1872 church, reportedly built in part by parishioners after they came home from working in the mines, was described by the Wilkes-Barre Record newspaper as “one of the most grand and imposing edifices in the state.”
Very sad that these magnificent structures built by people of modest means for the honor and glory of God are now being shuttered and possibly razed with little apparent regret by our dioceses.
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