{"id":21323,"date":"2010-08-17T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/parishioners_priest_from_closed_st-_peter_catholic_church_defy_bishop_celeb\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T18:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:00:29","slug":"parishioners_priest_from_closed_st-_peter_catholic_church_defy_bishop_celeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21323","title":{"rendered":"Parishioners, priest from closed St. Peter Catholic Church defy bishop, celebrate Mass in new home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defying the authority of their bishop, parishioners and their priest from the closed St. Peter Catholic Church in downtown Cleveland celebrated Mass Sunday in leased commercial space they transformed into a church independent of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese.<\/p>\n<p>The move by the new Community of St. Peter puts members in danger of excommunication because they had been warned by Bishop Richard Lennon, who shuttered St. Peter&#8217;s in April, not to hold worship services in places without his approval.<br \/>\n285<br \/>\n3<br \/>\n261Share<\/p>\n<p>Still, about 350 people, joined by their spiritual leader, the Rev. Robert Marrone, gathered for their first Mass and communion in their new home &#8212; a newly renovated, century-old building on Euclid Avenue and East 71st Street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cleveland.com\/metro\/2010\/08\/parishioners_from_closed_catho.html#incart_mce\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defying the authority of their bishop, parishioners and their priest from the closed St. Peter Catholic Church in downtown Cleveland celebrated Mass Sunday in leased commercial space they transformed into a church independent of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese. The move<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21323\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,42,154,184,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}