CLEVELAND (OH)
The Plain Dealer
By Michael O’Malley, The Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio — While Rome in recent months has reversed the closings of dozens of Catholic churches in the dioceses of Cleveland, Allentown, Pa., and Springfield, Mass., only one so far has been fully resurrected.
Last week, on Palm Sunday, more than 750 people packed St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church in Adams, Mass., for a standing-room-only Mass — the first Mass in the 110-year-old sanctuary since Bishop Timothy McDonnell closed it more than three years ago.
“We’re back in business,” parishioner Fran Hajdas, 75, said in a telephone conversation this week. “It feels good. Everybody’s happy.”
St. Stanislaus, like 50 churches in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, was closed as part of a finance-driven, diocesewide downsizing.
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