CLEVELAND (OH)
The Plain Dealer
By Michael O’Malley, The Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Catholic activist who represented some of the 13 Northeast Ohio churches that just won Vatican appeals of their closings wants to see the sanctuaries reopened for worship services by Palm Sunday, which is April 1.
Or if any of the 13 parishes want to reopen sooner, they can do so because Bishop Richard Lennon of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland can no longer deny the scattered congregations access to their padlocked churches, said Peter Borre of Boston.
Borre for years has been traveling to Rome on behalf of closed parishes in Boston and Cleveland.
Working with canon lawyers in the Holy See, Borre announced earlier this week that the Congregation for the Clergy, a Vatican panel that handled the 13 Cleveland appeals, reversed Lennon’s closings.
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