(Jessie Wardarski | AP file photo) The Rev. Manuel Rodriguez sits in the pews of his church, Our Lady of Sorrows, on March 5, 2021, in the Queens borough of New York. A new survey by the Pew Research Center, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, says in-person attendance at religious services in the U.S. declined during the COVID-19 pandemic. But Rodriguez says attendance is now higher at his Catholic church than before the pandemic, even though more than 100 of his parishioners died of COVID.