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By Elaine Mallon, The Federalist, Nov. 22, 2023

Elaine Mallon is a freelance writer based in Michigan. Her work has been featured in the Washington Examiner, Detroit News, and Breitbart News.

The Catholic Church is consolidating parishes in many major U.S. cities amid priest shortages and financial pressure from sexual abuse settlements.

It has been months since more than a dozen parishes in the St. Louis Archdiocese submitted appeals to the Vatican in the hopes of keeping their doors open, and now Rome has agreed to hear the appeal of two parishes: St. Elizabeth Mother of John the Baptist Parish and Sts. Philip and James Parish.

Back in May, St. Louis Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski announced that 178 individual parishes are being consolidated into 134. The archdiocese is also preparing to assess the future of nearly one-third of its elementary grade schools. The archdiocese cites declining attendance in weekly Mass and a shortage of priests as reasons for the restructure. ….

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