(29 Apr 2023) With congregations dwindling and villages emptying out, maintaining hundreds of historic adobe churches – made with mud and straw centuries ago – is a daunting challenge across rural New Mexico. “Mayordomos,” community leaders who are the churches’ caretakers in the absence of regular clergy, are trying to save them. (April 29)

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