Bad news.MIAMI Miami, cities, United States Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə). 1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896. -- The Archdiocese arch·di·o·cese n. The district under an archbishop's jurisdiction. arch  di·oc of Miami announced August 15 that it would
dose and merge 14 churches. Archbishop John Favalora John Clement Favalora (1935 - ) is the current Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami in Miami, Florida. He was appointed the third Archbishop of Miami on November 3, 1994. said that in
selecting the parishes, he not only used financial criteria and
sacramental sacramental, in the Roman Catholic Church, aid to devotion that is not a sacrament. Sacramentals are commonly divided into six classes: prayer, anointing, eating, confession, giving, and blessings. statistics but also tried to promote multicultural diversity
in parishes.
The archdiocese is closing several predominantly black and Haitian churches. Dale Deshazior, an affected parishioner, told the Miami Herald, "He says he wants the black Catholics to move over to other parishes so we won't feel as ... segregated. But we as black Catholics ... should be able to express our own black culture in song and dance and the way we do the liturgy." |
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