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October 1, 2006
Parish Consolidation
For the occasional reader curious about the Diocese of Rochester and parish consolidation (really, there are a couple!) here's a link to a reasonably detailed story in the Rochester Catholic Courier. Most of the place names will be meaningless to those who don't already know the area, but it gives you some idea of the scope of the priest-personnel-problem facing the diocese.
I didn't submit a new name because the best I could come up with is St. Peter's, which turns out to be the original name of the parish before it became St. Francis de Sales (and before the 2nd Episcopal church in town took it up, too). They switched to SFdS because he was a bishop of Geneva. St. Peter's, by the way, would be appropriate because it's the dedication of the pre-reformation cathedral of Geneva.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at October 1, 2006 5:25 PM