Restructuring means fewer ethnic parishes

From the Scranton Times:

Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton once were places where prayers were whispered in Polish, sins were confessed in German and hymns were sung in Lithuanian.

The diocese will soon have fewer spaces that echoed the sounds of those tongues.

The diocese-wide restructuring plan recently announced by Bishop Joseph F. Martino will leave only a fraction of the ethnic, or national, parishes that were established in the 11-county regional church.