Archdiocese should not reduce its presence among the poor.

When I heard of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s proposal to close many Catholic churches in the city (“Proposal would radically reshape Catholic Baltimore, cut parishes by 66%,” April 14), I thought of Victor Hugo in 1831 writing “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” with a disabled bell-ringer to save Notre-Dame Cathedral. He wrote of the cathedral as…