SAVE OUR BUFFALO CHURCHES
Our mission is to help keep our Diocese of Buffalo churches and parishes open and to save souls.
Help our parishes....Donate or Volunteer today!
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We appreciate any help you can provide us to defray administrative costs as well as expenses for a canon lawyer in Rome for future phases of the appeal process. Use the button below for electronic donations.
Make checks payable to:
Save Our Buffalo Churches, Inc.
P.O. Box 23, Spring Brook, NY 14140
EIN: 33-3483686
Save Our Buffalo Churches
Saving Our Parishes
At Save Our Buffalo Churches, we are helping to share information with our diocese on all of our rights as laity, clergy and parishes under Canon law.
Closures/Mergers are permitted for ‘grave cause’ only. 'Grave cause' does NOT include priest shortages, diocese financial issues, nor demographic changes which are temporary circumstances and can change. Canon Law allows for an appeal of a bishop’s decision.
A Church cannot be closed when you have the faithful willing to fund a church, repair a church, and use a church.
Once a church building is consecrated, the intent is for it to go 'in perpetuity' and not be deconsecrated 'willy nilly'.
"Closures and mergers are a blunt instrument. This endangers the faith life of these people and has caused harm... Forty percent of people whose parishes have been merged leave the Catholic church. There's something wrong. " (now deceased canon lawyer Sr. Kate Kuentzler)