c. 2012 Religion News Service CLEVELAND (RNS) Catholics around the U.S. are coming together for prayer vigils as a show of support for America's nuns, whom the Vatican accuses of having "serious doctrinal problems."
c. 2012 Religion News Service CLEVELAND (RNS) It's been nearly a month since Bishop Richard Lennon announced he would reopen 12 closed churches, but so far no shuttered sanctuaries have been resurrected.
c. 2012 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND (RNS) Before a recent prayer service in a shuttered Catholic
church in Holyoke, Mass., parishioner Victor Anop stood before 120 people and
made an urgent announcement:
"The Vatican has ordered the bishop of Cleveland to reopen 13 closed
churches."
c. 2012 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND (RNS) In an extraordinary move, the Vatican has reversed the
closure of 13 churches in the Diocese of Cleveland, saying the parishes must
be restored and the sanctuaries reopened for worship, according to activists
who fought the closings.
CLEVELAND (RNS) They call themselves "Roamin' Catholics," traveling from
church to church, looking for a new place to worship since Cleveland's
oldest black Catholic church was shut down more than a year ago.
CLEVELAND (RNS) Hundreds of United Methodists are meeting in Huron,
Ohio, this week in an uphill bid to make their 12 million-member
denomination more gay-friendly.
Activists are gearing up for next year's General Conference meeting
in Tampa, Fla., where they plan to fight once again to change the
church's official position that homosexual activity is a sin.
CLEVELAND (RNS) In days long gone, Roman Catholic priests regularly made
deathbed house calls, even in the middle of the night with little
notice, to pray over the dying and anoint them with holy oils.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (RNS) At Spiritus Christi Church, the choir sings the
lyrics of "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun" -- a
song about a brothel.
Surely, such a tune for a sacred service would never meet the
approval of the Rochester Roman Catholic Diocese. Then again, nothing
about Spiritus Christi meets the diocese's approval.
CLEVELAND (RNS) In days long gone, Roman Catholic priests regularly made
deathbed house calls, even in the middle of the night with little
notice, to pray over the dying and anoint them with holy oils.
(RNS) The recent appointment of an American archbishop to the Vatican
office overseeing a wide-ranging investigation of U.S. nuns has the
sisters and their supporters breathing a little easier.
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