"Imagine a once-thriving town with seven churches, businesses, schools, and working families - now with less than 10 residents. Imagine all but a handful of those homes and building once alive but now mostly razed. Imagine only one beautiful structure left. The only one that remains fully alive and thriving in the ghost town.
"Imagine no more because the municipality is Centralia, Penn., and the only one, thriving edifice is the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church. So flourishing, in fact, that it has been designated a holy pilgrimage site and was chosen to have a Holy Door of Mercy in the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia for the Jubilee Year of Mercy."
In a recent commentary, National Catholic Register staff writer Joseph Pronechen recently reflected Centralia's transition from a thriving town to a ghost town and on why the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church is thriving.
To access Mr. Pronechen's complete post, please visit:
National Catholic Register: Blogs: Joseph Pronechen: The Strange Case of the Pilgrimage Site in a Pennsylvania Ghost Town (28 AUG 16)
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