Final Mass comes for dozens of Catholic parishes across the St. Louis region
July 28, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Following an announcement in May, 34 parishes in the Archdiocese of St. Louis will close on August 1 as part of Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski’s restructuring program, which is called “All Things New.”
The number of diocesan and religious priests in the archdiocese fell from 1,105 to 547 between 1966 and 2020.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Jul. 29, 2023 1:34 AM ET USA
From an article today about Burundi: "Despite...the extreme poverty in which the population lives and the years of civil war that have never led to a definitive reconciliation, the local Catholic Church has seen an increase in the number of believers in recent years. In fact, according to estimates by the local Church, the country has experienced a boom in vocations to the consecrated life and to the priesthood." Africans reject the heterodoxy of the West. Thus the number of faithful grow.
