{"id":13529,"date":"2012-03-08T15:24:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=13529"},"modified":"2012-03-08T20:45:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T02:45:05","slug":"vatican-reverses-cleveland-church-closings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/08\/vatican-reverses-cleveland-church-closings\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Reverses Cleveland Church Closings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cleveland.com\/metro\/2012\/03\/vatican_reverses_cleveland_cat.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vatican reverses Cleveland Catholic Diocese&#8217;s closing of 13 parishes<\/strong><\/a> (Cleveland.com)<\/p>\n<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio &#8212; In an extraordinary move, the Vatican has reversed Bishop Richard Lennon&#8217;s closings of 13 churches in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, saying the parishes must be restored and the sanctuaries reopened for worship, according to activists who fought the closings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previous coverage on <em>Pray Tell<\/em> about the closings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/04\/church-is-it-the-bishops-the-people-or-buildings\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Church: Is it the Bishops? the People? or Buildings?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland Diocese recently finished closing 50 churches.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/16\/st-peters-in-cleveland-breaks-with-bishop\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>St. Peter\u2019s in Cleveland breaks with Bishop<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parishioners of St. Peter\u2019s Catholic Church in Cleveland, which was slated for closing, have broken with their Bishop and started their own faith community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A recent update on St. Peter&#8217;s appears in the National Catholic Reporter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/news\/faith-parish\/cleveland-parish-remains-community-different-sort\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cleveland parish remains a community of a different sort<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Jack Rakosky for compiling this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican has reversed Bishop Richard Lennon&#8217;s closings of 13 churches in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, according to activists who fought the closings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1860,1162,847,427],"class_list":["post-13529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ddw-holy-see","tag-bishop-richard-lennon","tag-church-closings","tag-diocese-of-cleveland","tag-national-catholic-reporter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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