Posted on 04/10/2023 6:22:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
The lay faithful have launched 'Save Our St. Louis Parishes' in an effort to halt the merger of up to 90 of the archdiocese's 178 parishes.
ST. LOUIS (LifeSiteNews) — Catholics of the Archdiocese of St. Louis launched a project named “Save Our St. Louis Parishes” to prevent the restructuring of the parishes of the archdiocese, proposed initially as part of a strategic planning effort by Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski.
The archbishop announced the strategic plan for the archdiocese in January 2022. The plan, titled “All Things New,” cited the steady decline in vocations in St. Louis as well as a decline in Church attendance as reasons for a major restructuring of the diocese that would include a large-scale shuffling of parishes communities. The archbishop initially proposed that up to 90 of the 178 parishes currently in operation could face potential closure and be merged to form “families of parishes.”
The archdiocese hired Catholic Leadership Institute (CLI) to draw up the initial plan for parish closures, with little opportunity for the faithful who would be affected to effectively give their input. The avalanche of changes came to a halt, however, when diocesan authorities were made aware of the gross violations of canon law their actions would entail.
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Dear good people of St. Louis, the Latin Church is fallen and is soon no more. Please feel welcome in coming to the true church of Christ, the Eastern Orthodox Church.
People get too attached to buildings.
I love how they give the plans to destroy half the parishes in a given diocese names like “All Things New.” Truth in advertising would demand that they call such plans: “The Bishops have failed.”
We need to pray for more vocations.
Sure. So one can have three living wives at the same time!
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