The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy has rejected an appeal from St. Barnabas in O’Fallon, upholding Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski’s decree in which St. Barnabas was subsumed by Assumption Parish in O’Fallon on Aug. 1, 2023. Father Nicholas Kastenholz serves as pastor of Assumption.

As part of All Things New, Archbishop Rozanski also established a new personal parish for the Spanish-speaking community in St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren counties, named St. Juan Diego. That parish is based on the former St. Barnabas campus. Father Eric Olson serves as pastor.

The faithful of the following parishes appealed suppressions or mergers and are still awaiting a decision from the Vatican: Our Lady of Sorrows in St. Louis, St. Bernadette in Lemay, St. Agnes in Bloomsdale, St. Lawrence in Lawrenceton, St. Paul in Berger and St. Matthew the Apostle in St. Louis.