A REPORTER from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was kind enough to inform me that I had confused the city of Allentown, Pa. with the Pittsburgh area neighborhood of Allentown in a post about the closure of St. John Vianney Church. While I stand by my basic point that changing demographics, caused by mass immigration (Hispanics are not keeping those historic Catholic churches alive) and the sidelining of Catholic doctrine on contraception, have led to the closure of many churches (one in four in Chicago churches are in danger of shutting down), this was a serious error and I have removed the post.

I have been hard-pressed this week due to other pressing obligations. Still that’s no excuse!

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MK from NJ writes:

You are too fastidious – hardly a “serious” error – everything you say of import survives (as you say) – any real reader confusion is very local, i.e. PA – (you’re UK resident, right?) – I see it much closer to “trivial” – a straight and simple correction would have sufficed – you could have appended it to the post.

You can worry more about your obligations (less about the blog). Where did I see something Carlyle-ish recently “… attach yourself to the closest duties you find…?”

Laura writes:

Thanks, but I think you’re being fastidious about my being fastidious. : – )

I live in Pennsylvania, and Allentown is hundreds of miles from Pittsburgh.

It’s better to say nothing than to risk being inaccurate.

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