Last summer, Holly Hills neighbors agreed to pay $200 to put off-duty police officers on their streets. This week, St. Louis Hill voted on a similar plan.
Mergers will be suspended for several parishes until the Dicastery for the Clergy makes a decision, which the Archdiocese said will likely take months.
"This was in reaction to South City Hospital closing and we went into action. The layoff was 563 people," Fredrecka McGlown, SLATE's executive director, said.