LOCKPORT, NY (WKBW) — A Roman Catholic church in Lockport fighting to stay open has received an update from the Vatican. Under the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo’s Road to Renewal, All Saints Church on Church Street in the City of Lockport is slated to close and merge with another nearby church

7 News Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley brings the reaction.

“I consider it a partial victory,” declared John Wick, procurator of the appeal at All Saints.

All Saints parishioners in Lockport are trying to stop the Buffalo Diocese from closing and merging the church.

The parish was the first to appeal to the Vatican. A decree from Rome states it upholds the bishop's decision to merge All Saints with St. John the Baptist Church in Lockport.

But the person leading the appeal, John Wick, told me what e

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