Thursday, December 01, 2011

Parish Closures? Who? When? Part 2: Immaculate Heart of Mary, Detroit

The Immaculate Heart of Mary Center in Northwest Detroit (Part of Corpus Christ Parish) is being closed soon and the property is to be sold to Michigan Technical Academy Elementary School currently renting parts of the facility. From the RFP:
Michigan Technical Academy leases two buildings from the Archdiocese of Detroit (the Academy also owns a third building in Redford).The Academy is purchasing one of these buildings at 19940 Mansfield, Detroit, 48235, and constructing an addition to that building. The addition will permit the Academy to terminate the lease at the second facility, transfer its students and consolidate operations to begin the 2012-13 school year.
This won't be the first parish to be converted to a charter school, and it probably will not be the last.

The final mass will be at 9am on Sunday December 11, 2o11. Principal celebrant will be Bishop Hanchon. There is a lot more information in the article from the Michigan Catholic. Hopefully I can get to the Mass to document it., but the Michigan Catholic will likely cover it whether I can or not.
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4 comments:

  1. Frank DeBoever10:34 PM

    Your blog is positive tickets, parish closures on the other hand, give me a pit in my heart...

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  2. Paddi8:50 PM

    MY home parish, baptised there...I wonder where my records will go

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  3. Paddi8:50 PM

    MY home parish, baptised there...I wonder where my records will go

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  4. Unknown8:03 AM

    Went to IHM for 8 years in the 60’s. I can remember a couple Sunday sermons talking about “White Flight”. Every year from the late 60’s the enrollment was declining from Immaculate Heart of Mary. There were less and less nuns teaching in the school. The Parish went from a pastor and 2 assistants to just 1 priest. We finally moved out at the end of 1974, but by that time over half the White people had fled to the suburbs.

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