St. Leo Catholic Church gets good news, other Catholics to learn their ...
20.05.12
Parishioners at St. Leo Catholic Church which is renowned for its outreach to the homeless, hungry and destitute got good news Sunday.
The church, on Grand River near Warren on Detroits westside, will stay open, but as part of a merged parish with St. Cecelia, about two miles away on LIvernois near the Jeffries.
Yes, we will be open. Were not closing down. Were changing, the Rev. Theodore Parker, said to the applause of about 200 congregants at St. Leos noon mass.
In November, the Archdiocese of Detroit listed St. Leos, once the home parish of peace activist and retired Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, as one of the churches it planned to close in the coming years --- in a proposed realignment of 270 parishes across the six-county archdiocese to deal with a severe priest shortage and financial shortfalls.
Parker told the congregants that Catholic Archbishop Allen Vigneron decided that St. Leo and St. Cecilia should merge into a new parish
Source: Detroit Free Press