4 dozen Catholic parishes targeted to close, merge in Detroit, suburbs

**townonenorth** · December-01-11, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by rjk

I'm biased towards SHM because that's the church that I attend, but St. Florian is in my opinion is one of the most impressive as far as the exterior goes. What also adds to it's beauty is that it is surrounded by a densely populated community which can't be said of many of the old churches in this area.

I'll bet that soon enough St Florian and its complex will be sold to another congregation that will fill the church complex. Not Catholic though, and maybe not even Christian. There always remains the possibility that it can be supported as a worship center, which would be preferable to a sale.

**Danny** · December-01-11, 10:37 AM

This is much worse the Catholic Church closings in the Metro-Detroit area of 1988. Just as the Vatican tries of reform mass services.

**Danny** · December-01-11, 10:47 AM

Most Catholic Churches in America are slowly decline due to new age fantasms from cults to revised Prostestant Christian Apostolic Churches to revolution of Nation of Islam. Take a look at this movated superchurch in the Untied States.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3JfzRP_9a8

This superchurch has over 40,000 members and growing. It's at Houston Texas at the Old Summit/Campaq Stadium where the Houston Rockets used to play. It's founded by Reverand Joel Osteen, a motivated preacher.

**Bham1982** · December-01-11, 12:31 PM

St. Joseph's is probably the most impressive and beautiful church in the entire Archdiocese. I can't imagine they would close it. Though I do know that it has very light attendance.

IMO, it's far more impressive and beautiful than the cathedral.

**p69rrh51** · December-01-11, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

St. Joseph's is probably the most impressive and beautiful church in the entire Archdiocese. I can't imagine they would close it. Though I do know that it has very light attendance.

IMO, it's far more impressive and beautiful than the cathedral.

All three are very impressive.

**jhartmich** · December-02-11, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

St. Joseph's is probably the most impressive and beautiful church in the entire Archdiocese. I can't imagine they would close it. Though I do know that it has very light attendance.

IMO, it's far more impressive and beautiful than the cathedral.

We do have light attendance 125 - 175 between the two masses on Sunday. We do have some endowments that are pretty substantial. Allot of the old German families left quite a bit of money to St. Joseph Church. Per parishioner, St. Joseph takes in more money that SHM or St. Josaphat.

I would hate to lose any of the three churches. It's in God's hands. We'll see what happens.