Scenarios
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Initial Scenarios and Alternatives
Representatives from the archdiocese and the Holy Family Feedback and Discernment Team shared the following set of initial scenarios for discussion and input, as well two alternative scenarios that have emerged from conversations. The following scenarios are still under discussion by the Little Italy Grouping.
Scenario A - Each of the parishes and institutions would remain as is, following a pastoral plan implemented and mutually supported by the four institutions.
Scenario B-1: - Holy Family and Notre Dame would unite to form one new canonical parish under one pastor and staff team. Both churches would remain as active worship sites of the new parish.
- The Shrine and Newman Center would remain in their current structures.
Scenario B-2: - Holy Family and Notre Dame would unite as in Scenario B-1.
- Notre Dame de Chicago Church would serve as the church for the new parish.
- Holy Family Church would no longer be used regularly by the parish.
- The Shrine and Newman Center would remain in their current structures.
Scenario B-3: - Holy Family and Notre Dame would unite as in Scenario B-1.
- Holy Family Church would serve as the church for the new parish.
- Notre Dame de Chicago Church would no longer be used regularly by the parish.
- The Shrine and Newman Center would remain in their current structures.
Scenario B-4: - The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii and the St. John Paul II Newman Center would share one priest as pastor and chaplain.
- Notre Dame and Holy Family would remain in their current canonical structures.
Alternative 1Scenario C: - Holy Family Parish and the St. John Paul II Newman Center would share one priest to serve as both pastor of the parish and chaplain of the Newman Center.
- Notre Dame and the Shrine would remain in their current canonical structures.
- Holy Family and Notre Dame de Chicago would unite to form one canonical parish under one pastor and staff team.
- The primary worship site would be Notre Dame de Chicago. Holy Family would be retained as a worship site with limited use.
- The St. John Paul II Newman Center could remain in its current canonical structure but would effectively become a site and ministry of the new parish. The chaplain would live at Notre Dame de Chicago and serve as Associate Pastor.
- The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii would remain in its current structure.
Alternative 2- Holy Family, Notre Dame de Chicago, the St. John Paul II Newman Center, and the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii would combine to form a “United Catholic Community.”
- One pastor would oversee the entity assisted by at least one other priest (possibly the chaplain of the UIC Newman Center) and a pastoral staff.
- While all sites would initially remain open, the Community would commit to close two of the four sites to better deploy resources for outreach and growth.
- The Shrine and Newman Center could retain their current canonical status (if needed) even as they fall under the umbrella of the “Catholic Community.”