Lots of Catholic Churches closing these days...

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By Kay Ebeling

Below linked are news stories of Catholic Church, school, and social work closings in the past few days only, which to me is another sign of the bishops skewered priorities. With all the wealth in the Vatican, they close properties AND often blame it on the plaintiffs in child sex crime lawsuits, which came about as a result of the Catholic Church's epidemic of sex predator priests. It's not our fault they let their celibate employees pick from a flock of catamites from parish families to make it easier to be celibate. That was Church practice, not innocent American children's practice... And again, if they had just admitted guilt and reached out to the victims back in the mid-1990s, the American Catholic Church would probly still be thriving. Instead:

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CBS News
Diocese's closure of center for minorities, poor shocks…
Like many others Thursday, a distraught Luis Montoto rushed to the Catholic Multicultural Center in Madison with one question: “What can I do?” Montoto and his wife, Lupita, had just learned that, due to budget cuts, the Madison Catholic…
Wisconsin State Journal
1 day ago

Javno
Mass set for closing St. Aloysius
The school with 12 classrooms, a library and cafeteria will close at the end of the school year. Former teachers, employees and students are invited to attend the 11:15 Sunday morning Mass at St. Aloysius Church to honor the closing. “It’s…
Times-Leader
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1 day ago
Committee studying church options
GLOVERSVILLE - Parishioners at St. Mary of Mount Carmel and Sacred Heart churches will meet early next month to hear what will become of one of the two church buildings slated for closure at the end of June. Karen Hoose, pastoral associate…
Leader-Herald
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5/26/2009
Serbian church to close drug centre over beating
BELGRADE, May 23 (Reuters) - The Serbian Orthodox Church ordered the closure on Saturday of a treatment centre for drug abusers after a video showed a patient being beaten with a shovel, punched and kicked as part of supposed treatment. The…
Reuters AlertNet
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5/23/2009
St. Francis Solanus in Bay Shore may close
In the fall of 2006, a task force was put together by Bishop Patrick R. Cooney to look more closely at a shortage of church members and priests. During a special meeting April 27, after two-and-a-half years of study and consultation with…
Petoskey News-Review
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5/27/2009
Catholic Multicultural Center to close in local diocese cuts
The economy is hitting the Catholic diocese of Madison and hitting it hard. The diocese announced on Wednesday the need to make "serious cutbacks," including closing its Catholic Multicultural Center on Madison's south side. The actions,…
Wisconsin State Journal
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22 hours ago
Madison's Catholic Diocese To Make Cuts, Close CMC
MADISON, Wis. -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Madison announced Wednesday that it will cut pay for some diocesan employees, reduce staff and close the diocese's Catholic Multicultural Center. Those measures are in addition to the…
Channel 3000
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1 day ago
Madison diocese closes center, cuts staff/pay
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Catholic Diocese of Madison says the tough economy has forced it to close its social service center, reduce staff and cut pay for some employees. The 11-county diocese hasn't disclosed its budget shortfall or how…
WBAY Green Bay
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20 hours ago
Diocese closing Fatima church in Worcester
WORCESTER — Parishioners at Our Lady of Fatima Church had already staved off one attempt to close their house of worship, which prominently sits high above Interstate 290 near Lincoln Square. Back in 1978, Diocese of Worcester officials ...…
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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3 hours ago
Diocese of Rockville Centre freezes employee salaries
Saying economic woes are affecting one of the nation's largest suburban Catholic dioceses, Bishop William Murphy has announced a salary freeze for employees of the Diocese of Rockville Centre. The freeze will affect diocesan priests,…
Newsday

5/27/2009
A sanctuary no more
LONG BRANCH — To those used to regarding a house of worship as a place of sanctuary, the setting at St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church since last Sunday seems a little incongruous. The gates are locked and signs, printed in red in…
Asbury Park Press

Mass set for closing St. Aloysius
The school with 12 classrooms, a library and cafeteria will close at the end of the school year. Former teachers, employees and students are invited to attend the 11:15 Sunday morning Mass at St. Aloysius Church to honor the closing. “It’s…
Times-Leader
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1 day ago
Kingsmead School in Cheltenham will close this summer
It will be business as usual next term at Kingsmead School, despite the school's official closure looming. The school in Howell Road, Cheltenham , will cease to exist when it shuts its doors on July 17 for the summer holidays. But 100…
This is Gloucestershire
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5/26/2009
Committee studying church options
GLOVERSVILLE - Parishioners at St. Mary of Mount Carmel and Sacred Heart churches will meet early next month to hear what will become of one of the two church buildings slated for closure at the end of June. Karen Hoose, pastoral associate…
Leader-Herald
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5/26/2009
St. Colman Catholic Church plans to celebrate being spared…
St. Colman Catholic Church will hold a special Mass on Sunday to celebrate its rebirth, following the reversal of Bishop Richard Lennon's decision to close the 129-year-old parish. Lennon, in his plan to shrink the Cleveland Catholic…
Cleveland Plain Dealer Blog
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1 day ago
Serbian church to close drug centre over beating
BELGRADE, May 23 (Reuters) - The Serbian Orthodox Church ordered the closure on Saturday of a treatment centre for drug abusers after a video showed a patient being beaten with a shovel, punched and kicked as part of supposed treatment. The…
Reuters AlertNet
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5/23/2009

5/24/2009
One last celebration
SUGAR NOTCH — Today, Mary Kay Pettinger will bear witness to the closing of not only a church, but the closing of a chapter of her family’s history. Like many other parishioners, Pettinger was baptized into St. Charles Borromeo Roman…
Citizen's Voice
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5/24/2009
Connie Ankoviak, an 11-year principal at St. Andrews School in…
GRAND RAPIDS -- The 137 students at St. Andrew's School will finish their year without longtime Principal Connie Ankoviak. She resigned last week, leaving parents and students mystified at her abrupt departure. Ankoviak, a middle school…
Grand Rapids Press
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11 hours ago
Greenbush hit by string of apparent arsons
Police have a suspect in four cases of apparent arson in Greenbush, Minn., including fires in two churches, in the past month or so. But no one has been arrested, said Lisa Hanson, Roseau County attorney. On the evening of May 8, a passing…
Park Rapids Enterprise
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1 day ago
School's out ... forever
After educating nearly 5,000 students over the last 43 years, Driscoll Catholic High School in Addison closed its doors Thursday. In the last few weeks students have signed classmates' yearbooks, taken their final exams and considered new…
Chicago Tribune

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