Church downsizing should consider hardship on new arrivals | READER COMMENTARY

Aside from savoring the architecture inside the Ministry of Brewing, I have no firsthand knowledge of Baltimore’s extensive history of Catholic churches. However, reading The Baltimore Sun, one cannot help but to have sympathy for parishioners losing their places of worship and those who have suffered abuse (“Clergy abuse survivors testify in Catholic church bankruptcy case: ‘Do you see me now?’” May 21).

It seems like immigrants are fueling a resurgence of church attendance, often forming...