ROCHESTER (NY)
WHEC
September 13, 2019
By Berkeley Brean
This weekend, hundreds of thousands of Catholics will go to Mass in the Rochester Diocese wondering what’s going to happen to their church now that the diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. News10NBC is finding answers from a place that already went through this.
Starting in 2015, four dioceses in Minnesota filed for bankruptcy. The largest — Minneapolis, St. Paul — reached a settlement last year. So I contacted a former Rochester journalist and reporter at our sister station in Minnesota, Kevin Doran, to find out what happened.
Doran and his KSTP news team covered the story of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis, St. Paul when it filed for bankruptcy and emerged three years later.
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