PENNSYLVANIA/DELAWARE
Philadelphia Inquirer
JONATHAN LAI, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
POSTED: Sunday, June 2, 2013
Linda Fleming was baptized at St. Leo the Great on Father’s Day in 1958, exactly two weeks after she was born. She received the sacraments of communion and confirmation there, and attended the church’s grade school. The Funeral Masses for her parents were said at St. Leo’s.
And even after moving to Bustleton in 2010, Fleming still attended services at the church in Philadelphia’s Tacony section.
In short, Fleming said Sunday outside the church on Keystone Street, “This is our home.”
That home is set to be incorporated into Our Lady of Consolation parish less than a mile away, also in Tacony, as part of an ongoing Archdiocese of Philadelphia initiative to merge parishes.
In all, mergers affecting 27 parishes throughout Northeast, Northwest, and West Philadelphia, as well as Delaware County, were announced Sunday in conjunction with the archdiocesan effort to cut costs and achieve greater efficiencies in light of declining membership.
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