In the last month, a group of parishioners working to save the church have formed a nonprofit called the St. Adalbert Preservation Society. With the help of Brody Hale, a lawyer who heads the Catholic Church Preservation Society, they have filed appeals to the archdiocese and contacted a canon lawyer in Rome to argue on their behalf. Hale has drafted the appeal to Rome that will be filed Friday, he said, adding that the Vatican has overturned 34 church closings in seven dioceses since 2011. St. Adalbert resembles many of those examples, he said, but it stands out for its architectural grandeur.