One of our parishes is missing! Still!

Who’s in charge here?  Official archdiocesan report on the life of Fr. Bill Kelly still says St. Catherine of Siena parish is closed:

For nine years beginning in 1954, Fr. Kelly was the assistant pastor at St. Edmund Parish in Oak Park.  In 1963, he was named assistant pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Parish, on W. Roosevelt and Hoyne, where he served for five years before assuming the same duties at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Oak Park from 1968 to 1975. All of these parishes, with the exception of St. Edmund, are now closed.

Wrong-o, of course, as Chi Trib has neatly corrected itself.

An obituary for the Rev. William J. Kelly on Monday stated that the St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Parish had closed. To clarify, the church merged with another and exists today as St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy Roman Catholic Parish at 38 N. Austin Blvd., Oak Park.

Thus recovering from its understandable boo-boo in trusting the gang downtown.  We should start with its Director of the Department of Communications and Public Relations, Colleen Dolan, on the job since ‘04,

responsible for the strategic direction and development of all institutional archdiocesan communications including media relations, public information, archdiocesan publications, school marketing, electronic media and communications technology, and employee communications throughout the Archdiocese.

Denying the continued existence of a parish fits into no strategy I can imagine.  Either the job is too big for Dolan, or she’s too big for it.

Later, from the archdiocese:

Both St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Oak Park and St. Lucy on Mayfield [sic] in Chicago were closed in 1974.  By canonical decree, and in accordance with Canon 121, the new, consolidated parish of St. Catherine of Siena/St. Lucy was created.

Ah.  The parish is dead, long live the parish.  If only newspaper reporters knew canon law.