European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday october 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 catholics to close Detroit churches More than one Fri ird of City parishes affected Detroit not in perhaps he most sweeping cutback by inc roman Catholic Church in United Stales history in has been recommended thai Marc than a third of Detroit s 112 Catholic churches he dosed. On sunday stunned and saddened parishioners attending mass at ornate churches and Liny base ment parishes vowed to fight the move. Some parishioners wept during ser Mons thai tried to make some sense of the closings. Others held out Hope Hal their parishes might still be spared. Many who called the proposal in Chris Lian or worse planned to protest the recommendation announced by the Arch diocese of Detroit on wednesday to shul 43 inner City churches serving a Proiti Macly 10,000 parishioners Many of them poor and elderly. Al is. Ignatius of Antioch an East Side Parish celebrating its 40th anniversary on sunday 300 parishioners cheered when the Rev. Anthony j. Helios Ltd announced plans to protest the closing of he Church. When a Bishop Speaks we Don t Goose step said Helinski whose Parish has some 120 families. Catholic people must be consulted in All aspects of their lives and certainly on something Asim Ponall As a change in their  the. Archdiocese said the closings were prompted by Low membership at Urban parishes a shortage of priests and the High Osl of operating huge underused Church buildings in the inner City. The closings scheduled to be completed by next june Are subject to review by the archdiocese before in makes a final decision in january. Churches have until oct. 13 to file an a peal with he archdiocese. Our Bottom line is we want alive vibrant parishes thai really make a Dif Ference in the Community said Cardi Nal Edmund Szoka in a televised announcement last week. Money certainly has to be a consideration. We live in a world where we need  Lexers of protest Are coming in Al ready. Please find another Way Shan non Cornell a 14-year-old from nativity Parish wrote in a letter to Szoka. Pastoral historians say that such Clos Ings Are Likely to occur although perhaps not so dramatically in other cities when there arc few hispanic parishioners to replace the while catholics who migrated to the suburbs. The archdiocese of Chicago recently announced plans to close two landmark churches and indicated thai As Many As 25 other inner City parishes might be disbanded. Bui the Swift move by the archdiocese of Detroit has astonished pastoral Histo rians As Well As parishioners. I Don t think you could find a single historical parallel to this said monsignor John Tracy Ellis a historian at the Catholic University of America in Washington. The announcement came As yet another blow to a City still trying to recover from other losses. Since the 1950s, de troit has seen the departure of dozens of factories Stroh s brewery inc City s Only department store and 850,000 people. And in rundown neighbourhoods blighted by drug dealing and crime the churches Many of them architectural landmarks arc often havens for the elderly or the indigent offering food an Comfort and the Only sign of stability. Church leaders said the proposed Cut Back which culminates a five year study ofic archdiocese was an inevitable step 10 Ward making the Parish system More efficient. Suburban migration that has depicted jobs and people from inner City Detroit in the last few decades has also emptied Catho Lic churches Here. Now there Are not enough parishioners left to fill massive old sanctuaries once packed by a thousand or More immigrants and the children of immigrants for five or six masses each sunday. The number of catholics in the de troit area has grown from 900.000 afterword War ii to 1.5 million now bul most of Hal growth has been in the suburbs. In 1976, there were 104,380 Catho Lic households in Detroit As against48,800 now according to the archdiocese of the 30 new Cash Pic churches opened by inc archdiocese in the past 20years, Only two were opened in the City. National enquirer owner Dies after heart attack Miami not gun Cross p. Pope jr., the millionaire owner and publisher of the National enquirer suffered a heart attack on sunday at his Home in West Palm Heath Fla., and was pronounced dead on arrival at the . Medical Center. He was 61. Pope whose father founded ii Progresso. The new York cily italian language newspaper bought a weekly newspaper the new York enquirer in 1952 for$75,000. It had a circulation of 17,000 and a focus on polities sports personalities and theater. Pope converted the paper into i tabloid and Turne Dils pages into a showcase of inc bizarre with tales of mutilation sadism murder and gory accidents. Its name was changed to reflect its growing National readership and by the mid-1960s, the paper was making huge profits and its circulation had climbed to nearly i million. But in the belief that its Market had been saturated. Pope in the late 1960s put the enquirer into the nation s supermarkets and began aiming at a readership that included housewives. Sharply altering inc editorial policy he eliminated Gore and began packing inc pages with consumerism  and inspiration. The new formula Fca lured articles by religious Lead ers like the Rev. Billy Graham and pieces on extrasensory perception unidentified flying objects and practical advice ranging from what to do about loneliness Lohowa to avoid pneumonia. There were also frequent owner and publisher Generoso a Pope or. Articles featuring predictions by clairvoyants. Pope who personally approved every article thai went into the paper moved the enquirer from new York City to Englewood Cliffs ., in 1968, and to Lantana Fla., in 1971. It has 243 employees and a circulation of More than 4.5 million. A privately held corporation its profits Are not published. Generoso Paul Pope or. Was born in new York City on Jan. 13, 1927, the son of gun Cross and Catherine Richichi Pope. He attended the Horace Mann school and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of technology in 1946 Al age 19. From 1947 to 1951, Pope was editor of ii Progresso which he inherited along with other businesses after his father died in 1950. He sold ii Progresso in 1980. Pope was a member of inc Board of higher education the governing body of the City University of new York from 1950 to 1954, and since 1972, had been a trustee of the . Medical Center. Pope was married three times. His first wife Pat Ricia Timanus died and his second marriage to Edith Moore ended in divorce. He is survived by his third wife. The former Lois Benodin his Mother two Brothers. Fortunate and an irony two sons Paul of Lantana and gun Cross Iii of Mahwah  And four daughters Mich la Ritter of Boston Maria Kessel and Lorraine Pope both of Manalapan Fla. And Gina Pope of Knoxville Tenn. Pastor sought in child custody Case ladysm1th, wis. A a court has issued a felony warrant for a Mcleod is pastor who disappeared in August with his wife and stepchildren after the wife lost custody of the children to her sex husband. When the Rev Norman Luecke left Faith United Mcleod is Church he left a Handwritten letter to Church members admitting his action was illegal bul saying in was necessary if his wife was to keep her children. Luecke and his wife Sharon Weathers arc now wanted on felony warrants for interfering with a custody order issued for her iwo children from her previous marriage. They could face up to iwo years in prison and a j 10,000 Fine if convicted. Authorises said Zachary wealth cars 7, and his sister Bethany. 4, were Noi Relur cd to Sharon wealth cars sex husband Lindell Weathers after their summer Visiola lion with the Lucckesi ended aug. 14. Two weeks ear Lier an appeals court had upheld inc awarding of Cus Lody to Lindell wealth cars. A his letter to Church members. Luecke pleaded for understanding. What we Are doing is Isle Gal. That bothers me and i m sure Many would disapprove on that basis alone he wrote. Bul whal inc courts have done to Sharon and her children is immoral and wrong and so we had to choose and take a land accept whal is immoral and wrong or do something that is illegal  Luecke was married with three children of his own and was pastor at Salem lutheran Church in Shell Lake when he and his sex wife became friends with the Weathers. According to court records Lindell Weathers concluded in 1985 Hal his wife had begun a romantic relationship with Luecke. Both couples subsequently divorced and Luecke eventually resigned from inc lutheran Church married Sharon wealth cars and became a methodist minister. In 1987, he was named pastor for three method isl churches in Rusk county. After a lengthy Legal Battle. Circuit judge Alvin l. Kelsey awarded Lindell Weathers custody of the iwo children saying Hal i Lucr he or his in wife would be Good Parynis but described Sharon weather s new Hus band the pastor As a liar a Cecal and a shirker of his own family  two weeks before the couple and inc children disappeared the state court of appeals upheld Kelsey s custody decision. Washbum county sheriff Don Fuller said he sympathies with Lindell Weathers bul is unable to under take a nationwide search until there is evidence the fleeing couple has left Wisconsin. It almost obsesses you said Lindell Weathers a nursing Home administrator in Shell Lake. It s an unbelievable thing to go through from this end so i can i imagine what its Ike for the kids. In cities Sands of time 70 years ago today oct. 4, 1918 Allied officials reported Hal Bulgara had signed an armistice with the allies and that hostilities with the bulgarian forces had been suspended. 40 years ago today. Oct. 4. 1948 the Magazine aviation weekly reported Hal the soviet Union possessed a new jul Finler thai could Fly Al a Speed Range faster than any . Jet in operation. 30 years ago today. Oct. 4, 1958 Premier Charles de Gaulle announced a five year plan for Algeria thai promised better living and working Condi Lions for the 8 million moslem living in that country. 20 years ago today oct. 4, 1968 the International olympic eee live Comro Illee said the 1968 olympic games would proceed As scheduled in Mexico City despite the fact that some 10,000 student protestors continued to not in the streets. 70 years ago today. Oct. 4, 1978 William and Emily Harris Leader of the terrorist band known As the symbiont use liberation army were sentenced to 10 years to life in pcs on for inc kidnapping of Patricia Hearst