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Article: Parish may be home for Latin Mass
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2006
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GLOBE WEST 1 / NEWTON
Thanksgiving 2004 was not a happy one for the parishioners at Mary
Immaculate of Lourdes Parish in Newton Upper Falls. Their church was
on a list of those being closed by the Archdiocese of Boston and in
danger of being sold as excess real estate.
Less than a month later, though, the archdiocese said it was
reconsidering its decision and put the closure on hold. Now it
appears that not only will the parish survive, but that it will
likely become the archdiocesan home of the traditional Latin Mass.
Terrence Donilon, a spokesman for Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, said
that church officials had "open and candid" discussions last Sunday
with parishioners at Mary Immaculate and ...