New York archdiocese announces plans for parish mergers [CC]

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan has announced plans to merge 112 parishes: nearly one-third of the parishes in the New York archdiocese. In the reorganization plan–which the archdiocese is …

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Thankfully, my parish is doing exceeding well, and it not suspected to close, but there are several in the area that are not doing so well.

 

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Behind the New York Church Closings
Father Rutler discusses spiritual realities behind the decision to close 55 churches.

Catholics in dozens of parishes in New York City and several other counties that make up the Archdiocese of New York learned the sad news that the church where they have been worshiping will be closing.

As part of a major reorganization, Cardinal Timothy Dolan announced the results of a study aimed at saving badly-needed funds and shifting churches and priests to areas outside the city where the Catholic population is growing.

One well-known parish that was spared the axe is the midtown Manhattan Church of the Holy Innocents, a traditionally built church that has attracted a large crowd of traditional Catholics over the past few years. It is the only Catholic church in New York City that offers a daily Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite, also known as the Tridentine Mass.

Father George Rutler is administrator of both Holy Innocents and the West Side Church of St. Michael, which also was passed over by the reorganization plan. Father Rutler, author of Principalities and Powers: Spiritual Combat 1942-1943, and other works, spoke with Aleteia this morning about spiritual issues in the background of the archdiocesan reorganization.

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