Emotions run high at town hall on plan to realign Baltimore’s Catholic churches: ‘This is a watershed moment’

If there were any doubts about how strongly local Catholics are feeling about the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s proposal to realign the church’s operations in the city, they were dispelled Thursday night as hundreds packed a pair of rooms at Archbishop Curley High School for a town hall-style meeting on the far-reaching reform plan church officials went public with this month.

Parishioners from across the city stepped up to a microphone in the school’s cafeteria — some angry, some wistful...