PENNSYLVANIA
Tribune-Review
By Richard Gazarik
Published: Friday, August 2, 2013
Members of one of the oldest parishes in the Roman Catholic Greensburg Diocese have appealed to the Vatican to overturn Bishop Lawrence Brandt’s decision to remove a popular pastor and place the church under the administration of another parish.
More than 100 parishioners of St. Bruno’s Catholic Church in South Greensburg joined in the appeal to the Congregation for the Clergy, a ruling body for administrative issues relating to priests and parishes, to stop what they fear is the first step toward closing the 94-year-old church that has been staffed by Benedictines from St. Vincent Archabbey since it began as a mission in the early 1900s.
Diocesan spokesman Jerry Zufelt said Brandt is aware of the appeal but does not know any details.
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