The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy has responded to two more parishes that appealed their suppression or merger as part of All Things New. The dicastery has rejected the petition for hierarchical recourse for St. Matthew the Apostle Parish in St. Louis, upholding Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski’s decree to join St. Matthew, through an extinctive union, to a newly erected parish temporarily named Our Lady of the Holy Cross, St. Augustine, St. Elizabeth, Mother of John the Baptist, and St. Matthew the Apostle Parish. Father Scott Scheiderer serves as pastor of the new parish.
The Vatican also rejected an appeal from Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in St. Louis, thus upholding Archbishop Rozanski’s decree to join Our Lady of Sorrows, through an extinctive union, to a newly erected parish temporarily named Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Mary Magdalen, and St. Joan of Arc Parish. Father Brad Modde serves as pastor of the new parish.
Faithful of the following parishes appealed suppressions or mergers and are still awaiting a decision from the Vatican: St. Bernadette in Lemay, St. Agnes in Bloomsdale and St. Lawrence in Lawrenceton.
