On a sweltering Sunday in July, the priests of Buffalo, New York’s All Saints Parish urged the few parishioners who attended.
To find solace in sacred texts during the last Mass. “For everything, there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven,” the Bible says.
Many parishes across the world are coming to terms with the fact that it’s time to sell their properties. Father Bryan Zielenieski,
Who oversees renewal and growth for the Diocese of Buffalo, is among the several religious leaders in America who have recently shuttered places of worship.
“We essentially went to half of what we used to back in the early 2000s,” he said to ABC News. “We lost about 100 parishes.” Zielenieski anticipates having to close an additional 70 churches.
