St. Louis, Missouri, once a cardinalatial see, has fallen on hard times, now that Newchurch has taken it over. In 1966, just at the end of the Vatican II Anti-council, St. Louis boasted 1,105 diocesan and religious priests in the archdiocese. Since Newchurch took it over in 1964, that number has sunk by 80 per cent to 220 in 2022. The current 178 Newparishes in St. Louis are to be cut back by 44 per cent, with 100 being permanently shuttered.
At one time the Newarchdiocese was led by Ray "Bully" Burke, who to this day plays at being "traditionalist" so that he still has some notoriety, but he has om fact been quite the opposite. He "consecrated" a man as a Newchurch "nun" in what came to be known as the "Immaculate Deception." He also persecuted a traditional-leaning presbyter of his to such an extent that the entire religious community of St. Louis rejected him, and Benedict-Ratzinger finally had to fire him and spirit him behind the Newvatican's walls, in order to keep him under close watch. For many years now he has been entirely without portfolio. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Traditio.com for sept 12, 2022
Topic: Another Large Newchurch Archdiocese Bites the Dust (Read 422 times)