SHREWSBURY — 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.”
Not to be a cynic, but I thought the Saturday timing of the announcement on a busy Memorial Day Weekend which coincided with the Vigil of Pentecost was a nice touch. Another couple of pandemics, mask mandates, and vaccination drives and the numbers in the Catholic Church will be back to Mary in the upper room with the Apostles.
That’s okay. I heard they’ve got some new fangled Eucharistic Drive, which is sort of like a Tesla with a really, really long extension cord to get the faithful all fired up about the faith they’re no longer interested in.