Verbatim Record St. James Zoning Hearing of the Planning and Zoning Commission is now available.

The entire record is available on line by clicking on the following:  http://www.boonecountyil.org/sites/default/files/court%20reporter%20minutes.pdf

The Cathedral that never was

The following was the  proposed 14 story cathedral for the Rockford Catholic Diocese.  Designed in New York by Brother Cajetan Bauman, O.F.M. The plans were debuted in October 1965 by Bishop Lane.  After the bishop’s death, in 1968 Bishop O’Neil makes St. Peter’s the diocese’s cathedral.  Before that declaration St. James (Rockford) was the Pro-Cathedral.

Holy Family Parish: Rockford’s richest parish not as rich as in the past

 

The following are stewardship numbers from Holy Family Parish as taken from their bulletin.    As of June 26, 2011 the parish stewardship was $288,315 (11.8%) short of its $2,462,540 goal.  It has been substantiated from several sources that six full and part time employees were released.

 

Take a look at the numbers for April 10, 2011.  The budget goal for collections in FY 2011 was $47,500.  Thus far for FY 2012 Holy Family has not hit that number even for a single Sunday.

 

LAST UPDATED:  7-27-2011

 

 

 

By rights the boundaries of Holy Family are all within Winnebago County.  See the map below.  However a sizeable number of Boone County residents especially from the more affluent neighborhoods of Western Boone County are members of Holy Family.

 

July 14, 2011:

Shopper Ad: Attention Aldermen, VOTE NO

The ad shown below is from today’s Boone County Shopper, page 15