Deconsecrate?

When the country is going to hell, you would think that religion would be the stable force underpinning society. However, religious institutions are abandoning their own religious concepts that govern church laws and even their obligations to the people of the community.

A good illustration of this was shown in the local newspapers, when St. Benedict’s in Ladd was demolished. A letter dated 11 July 2010 by Monsignor Stanley Deptula stated that the church was razed because of very expensive repairs, and it would be deconsecrated. Is deconsecrated a new lexicon phrase in the Catholic Church? I never heard that word before.

To consecrate is to make holy. How does one deconsecrate a holy church? Who appoints the deconsecrator, and how is he selected? I always felt that what the church consecrated was immune to deconsecration and became holy ground. Priests are given holy orders, and they are not deconsecrated even if they leave the priesthood and become married. Once something is considered holy, it is my understanding that it can never be changed, especially in the Catholic Church.

Can one depregnate a pregnancy? The only way you can depregnate a pregnancy is through an abortion. Is the Peoria Diocese aborting their responsibilities by aborting churches like St. Benedicts in Ladd? What cannon laws govern deconsecration?

Sometime ago, I said that there was not a shortage of priests. Priests don’t work that hard; the Mass hasn’t changed in years. Let the laity do the administrative work and the priest do what is sacred.

The bishop should give priests dispensation to say more Masses, so they could service other churches that are without priests. Our priest at St. Thomas More in Dalzell has a dispensation to say five Masses, so he in turn goes to other churches to say Mass where they have a shortage of priests.

In June, this is exactly what the bishop is going to do. There will be one priest to service Dalzell, Cherry and Arlington churches. I don’t see why dispensation could not have existed before for all priests, and maybe saved all the struggles that towns have gone through.