
Archdiocese of Chicago publicizes more parish mergers Saturday amid monetary pressures
Officers on the Archdiocese of Chicago narrate mounting debt and declining enrollment will result within the shuttering of four suburban Catholic schools and the consolidation of dozens of parishes within the months forward. The closing schools are Christ Our Savior in South Holland, Sacred Coronary heart in Melrose Park, St. Ann in Lansing and St. Joseph in Summit. St. Benedict College in Blue Island and St. Walter College in Morgan Park will merge, with upper-grade college students at St. Benedict and decrease-grade college students attending St. Walter. Cardinal Blase Cupich made the college closure choices basically based on what officers described as “low and gradually declining enrollment levels” and neat monetary deficits. At the four schools that are closing, enroll...