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Article: Parishes ask Vatican for mediation over closings
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- April 7, 2009
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Worshippers in eight dioceses around the country have banded together in a last-ditch effort to ask the Vatican to instruct bishops to negotiate with them over the closures of their parishes and to stop them from "wrecking the Catholic Church in America."
Peter Borre, co-chairman of the Boston-based Council of Parishes, formed in 2004 to oppose parish closings, was in Rome on Monday to hand-deliver a letter asking that the Vatican tell bishops to promptly enter into mediation with 31 parishioner groups in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Boston; Buffalo, New York; Cleveland; New Orleans; New York City; Scranton, Pa.; and Springfield, Massachusetts.
The letter says more ...