Archbishop of St. Louis closes 35 parishes, reassigns 155 priests in Catholic church reorganization
The Archbishop of St. Louis will close 35 parishes and reassign 155 priests in the most sweeping reorganization of the Catholic church in St. Louis history.
After 18 months of waiting, Catholics learned on Saturday the fate of their priests and parishes in the downsizing of the archdiocese called “All Things New.”
“I wish these changes were not necessary, but it is what we are called to do at this moment,” Rozanski said Saturday.
The Catholic population in the region has fallen below 500,000 in 2021 for the first time in half a century. Pews are only about one-quarter full on Sundays.
Five men were ordained Saturday to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, down from an average of 18 ordinations a year in the 1960s.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metr...4bba5.html
The Archbishop of St. Louis will close 35 parishes and reassign 155 priests in the most sweeping reorganization of the Catholic church in St. Louis history.
After 18 months of waiting, Catholics learned on Saturday the fate of their priests and parishes in the downsizing of the archdiocese called “All Things New.”
“I wish these changes were not necessary, but it is what we are called to do at this moment,” Rozanski said Saturday.
The Catholic population in the region has fallen below 500,000 in 2021 for the first time in half a century. Pews are only about one-quarter full on Sundays.
Five men were ordained Saturday to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, down from an average of 18 ordinations a year in the 1960s.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metr...4bba5.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
