Latin Mass Parish to be Closed
Sad story from the Leeds Diocese in the UK:
Protests, prayers and petitions have not brought the parishioners of St John the Evangelist, Allerton Bywater very far. This Sunday, the last extraordinary form Mass will be celebrated in their church, one of seven due to be closed in Leeds diocese as part of a diocesan consolidation programme.
Parishioners sought to save the church by petitioning the bishop, asking for St John’s to be erected as a personal parish where the ordinary and extraordinary forms of Mass would be celebrated in Latin. They received no response. Earlier they had written to the bishop asking him to hold off closing the church. Again they received no response.