The Vatican has expressed “surprise” and “concern” at a plan by the Diocese of Shrewsbury to close one of its churches and arrange to have the parish Mass in a local Anglican church instead.
A letter from Mgr Giovanni Carrù, the under-secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, said the plan to close the Church of Ss Peter and Paul, on the Wirral coast, “appears to stand in direct contrast to the recent indication that there are no plans to close the church… which were communicated to this Dicastery by His Lordship [the Bishop of Shrewsbury]”.
The Diocese of Shrewsbury has said in response that all Canon Law requirements for the closure of the church had been fulfilled and that the Congregation had approved this.
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Vatican ”˜surprised’ at plan to move parish into Anglican church
The Vatican has expressed “surprise” and “concern” at a plan by the Diocese of Shrewsbury to close one of its churches and arrange to have the parish Mass in a local Anglican church instead.
A letter from Mgr Giovanni Carrù, the under-secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, said the plan to close the Church of Ss Peter and Paul, on the Wirral coast, “appears to stand in direct contrast to the recent indication that there are no plans to close the church… which were communicated to this Dicastery by His Lordship [the Bishop of Shrewsbury]”.
The Diocese of Shrewsbury has said in response that all Canon Law requirements for the closure of the church had been fulfilled and that the Congregation had approved this.
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