Population shift forces parishes to weigh future

The Post-Dispatch provides an update on a meeting Wednesday night to hear Monsignor Dennis E. Doerhoff and others present ideas and invite comments on the future of the parishes in the South City Deanery. The South City Deanery has 35 churches and 18 schools.

Some statistics of which I was unaware were these:

Studies show that the number of Catholics in the northeast part of the county dropped to 54,000 from 107,000 in 1970. The Catholic population on the South Side dropped in that time to 44,800 from 96,800.

Article here.