To be fair many of us do support the Catholic Church and the AOD with time, treasure, and talent and realize the difficult task of supporting all facets of Catholic stewartship with limited financial resources and more poignantly limited religious personnel. It is indeed obvious to most that the Catholic demographics within the AOD have changed drastically just over the last generation and supporting parishes with a grand edifice and scant membership needs review...Hence Parish consolidation and/or closing are a forced issue. This is what this thread is about.... There is [[was) an opportunity for a priest to remain in the AOD and serve as Pastor but the decison was to release him not to another Parish within the AOD but overseas. Many are wondering why. It has been suggested that because he is from Nigeria that his time of service is limited here in the AOD [[specifically at St. Jude). But it was understood that there was [[is) an opportunity to remain here and serve as Pastor. I am not a current member of St. Jude Parish but know Fr. Jovita and how much he is loved and respected within the community of northeast Detroit.
Bookmarks