{"id":23341,"date":"2010-12-09T03:38:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T03:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cleveland_catholic_bishop_makes_few_friends_and_many_enemies_in_diocesan_do\/"},"modified":"2010-12-09T03:38:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T03:38:23","slug":"cleveland_catholic_bishop_makes_few_friends_and_many_enemies_in_diocesan_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23341","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Cleveland Catholic Bishop Makes Few friends and Many Enemies in Diocesan Down-sizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even before he was officially installed as the Roman Catholic bishop of Cleveland in 2006, Richard G. Lennon was already talking about the need to close churches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs painful as a funeral is, it\u2019s there that you commend your loved one to God,\u201d\u009d Lennon told reporters just weeks before his installation.<\/p>\n<p>Those words, coming from an auxiliary bishop who had just closed scores of churches in Boston, sounded a death knell for dozens more in Northeast Ohio\u201d\u201dand unleashed a small but shrill backlash across Lennon\u2019s new flock.<\/p>\n<p>The extensive downsizing is essentially over, although some of the closings remain under appeal with the Vatican. In the end, 50 parishes were closed. Vacant churches are up for sale, merged parishes are moving forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/bishop-makes-few-friends-and-many-enemies-in-diocesan-down-sizing-cms-17126\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even before he was officially installed as the Roman Catholic bishop of Cleveland in 2006, Richard G. Lennon was already talking about the need to close churches. \u201cAs painful as a funeral is, it\u2019s there that you commend your loved<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23341\">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":[48,42,435,154,184,436,177,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23341","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=23341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}