Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York celebrates Mass inside the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls with members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Region II, during their �ad Limina Apostolorum� visit, Nov. 12, 2019.

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Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York celebrates Mass inside the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls with members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Region II, during their ad Limina Apostolorum visit on Nov. 12, 2019.

The Buffalo diocese filed for bankruptcy in February of this year, after it was named in hundreds of clergy sex abuse lawsuits filed in New York courts.