At Dubai's parish, Catholics find a home

Dubai's Catholic parish might be the world's largest. For its migrant parishioners, St. Mary's has become a home.

If you go to daily Mass, you know it’s pretty unusual to run across much of a crowd.

If you go to Mass at your local parish, there may be only a handful of people there, many of them retired, with maybe a few homeschool families to round things out.

If you go to Mass at a Newman Center, or a downtown cathedral during the lunch hour, things are a bit diffe…