Bishop Richard Lennon of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese wants to meet with the priest and lay leaders of a breakaway congregation to try to bring them back into the fold, a spokesman for the diocese said Monday. The diocese was reacting to an unauthorized Mass celebrated Sunday by the Rev. Robert Marrone and about 350 […]
Members of eight ethnic churches ordered closed by Bishop Richard Lennon of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese have joined a national appeal to the Vatican, saying the Catholic Church in America is engaged in “ethnic cleansing.” Catholic activist Peter Borre of Boston, representing 22 ethnic parishes in six dioceses, including Cleveland, met in Rome last week […]
