At Forlorn Urban Churches, Mass Gets Crowded in a Flash. (cover story)

CATHOLIC Church; AMERICAN Catholics; CATHOLIC church buildings; CHURCH buildings; CATHOLIC Church finance; ATTITUDE (Psychology)

The article discusses the Mass mob movement in which suburban Catholics in the U.S. attend financially struggling urban Catholic churches in large numbers in order to support the churches. Topics addressed include Mass mobs in Cleveland, Ohio and Buffalo, New York, as well as Catholics' efforts to visit churches that were attended by their parents and other older relatives.