CLEVELAND (OH)
WKYC
Written by
Dick Russ
CLEVELAND — A national figure in the Catholic Church closing controversy hosted a meeting in Cleveland Saturday.
Peter Borre of Boston’s Council of Parishes met with representatives of 12 of the 13 Northeast Ohio churches which the Vatican recently ordered to re-open. Borre has led a similar fight in Boston for more than seven years.
“In Boston we had to build on failure, namely our churches were shut down and we didn’t know what to do,” Borre told WKYC. “Here in Cleveland these groups will be building on success.”
“They’ve won some battles but they have not won they war,” he said of the 13 local parishes which have been fighting their closure. “But wow, this is the most encouraging thing I have seen on the Catholic beat in eight years.”
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