CLEVELAND (OH)
Crain’s Cleveland Business
By JOEL HAMMOND
10:35 am, April 17, 2012
Catholic Diocese of Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon announced Tuesday that he’d reopen 12 closed Catholic parishes that he closed in 2009 and 2010 as part of a wide-ranging restructuring of the diocese.
“It’s time for peace and unity in the Diocese of Cleveland,” he said in a news release.
Citing cash and priest crunches, Bishop Lennon closed 50 churches across the diocese over a two-year period. Activists fought the closings, and last month the Vatican overturned the closings and ordered the parishes reopened.
Bishop Lennon could have appealed that decision, but instead made Tuesday’s announcement.
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