Archdiocese Closes Parishes, Schools
<i> From Times Wire Services</i>
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has closed 33 parishes and 20 schools since Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin announced a retrenchment program in January, 1990, marking a 6.4% decline in the number of such institutions.
The total is greater than the much-publicized closing of 30 parishes in the Archdiocese of Detroit in 1989, which was done in a much shorter time.
The Chicago closings leave the 2.35-million-member archdiocese with 383 parishes and 374 elementary and high schools in Cook and Lake counties.
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