The writer Jack Kerouac was born and baptized in Lowell, Massachusetts, and the parish in question was a French-American parish with a stunningly beautiful church, all Romanesque arches. After the Archdiocese shut the parish down, it was converted to condominiums, I believe.

I looked up a little on the history of St. Anne's in Fall River.
For a time, the church was ministered to, first by Dominican friars directly from France, then by French-Canadian members of the Dominican Order in the Order's Canada province. It seems that no one could interest the Dominican friars who administrate the Order's province for the northeastern United States. But that province is known for being doctrinaire, top-heavy, and insular; so those friars might not feel at home in a parish that is as inclusive and diverse as the lay parishioners described in the Boston Globe article.