Posted on 03/15/2021 7:16:56 PM PDT by marshmallow
Several South Side and south suburban Catholic parishes will consolidate this summer, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced, as part of the ongoing Renew My Church initiative aimed at more efficiently tending the Catholic flock as church attendance falls and the number of priests declines.
St. Benedict Parish and School in Blue Island, St. Walter Parish and School in Chicago’s Morgan Park neighborhood and St. Peter Claver Mission in Robbins will unite under a single name and pastoral staff in July, with regular public services held only at St. Benedict. St. Benedict and St. Walter schools will unite for the coming school year as one school, sharing a name, with two active campuses, the archdiocese said in a news release Tuesday night. The church at St. Walter will not hold regular Sunday Mass but can be used for school Masses, funerals and other individual events.
Parish community members will provide name suggestions for consideration by Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archdiocese said in a news release. Monsignor Dennis J. Lyle will lead the newly united parish.
The St. Peter Claver Mission building will remain available for occasional events, but the Gospel Mass it holds will be incorporated into the style and schedule of St. Benedict.
St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr in Posen will join a grouping of St. Christopher in Midlothian and St. Damian in Oak Forest as the reorganization process continues, the archdiocese said. The pastor at St. Stanislaus will receive a new assignment in another parish this summer as a priest administrator guides St. Stanislaus through that process, according to the archdiocese.
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The Church would be better off leaving Chicago. The apostates there don’t want God in their lives. They are a godless society in Chicago.
Soupy works his magic.
“The apostates there don’t want God in their lives. “
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That particular sentence could be used either way.
1. The apostates (Catholic Church Leaders) don’t want God in their (Chicagoans) lives.
2. The apostates (Lost) don’t want God in their (Lost) lives.
Either way, it’s a mess.
Disclaimer: Raised Catholic - seen it from the inside.
Have respect for many Catholics, yet can clearly see the evil the Catholic Church has foisted upon generations and generations of people simply by threatening to deny them the various Acts of the church. Evil. Sheer evil.
That is why the Church is backing Biden Open borders to fill the pews with thousands of Illegal alien Catholics to replace the thousands of citizen Catholics that have left the Church due to Leftism of the Church.
When we moved from the Bridgeport neighborhood into this one My family helped start and build this parish St Jane De Chantel church and school and that’s what happened to it; http://www.theusmat.com/mdwbea.htm
I don’t believe that anymore; in my area we were flooded with Hispanic illegals and they either don’t go to Mass or if they do, don’t give much (in fairness to them, they don’t have much to give, and much of that goes back south of the border).
It is more likely the Church wants them as clients for its social services branches, taking money from Caesar to provide services for them.
Chicago has no Catholic leadership. Sad.
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