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	Cleveland Priest Defies Bishop, Starts Breakaway Group Catholic Culture August 16 2010 http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=7222 Defying a directive from Bishop Richard Lennon, a priest of a Cleveland parish closed in April has founded a new worship community. Father Robert Marrone was joined by 325 of his 700 former parishioners in a leased commercial building. “The Community of St. Peter holds to the fundamental teachings and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church,” said one layman. “We consider ourselves neither a focal point of dissent nor a schismatic organization. We do stand, however, in opposition to the closing of our church as well as so many others in our diocese.” “I see this as an act of disobedience, not a schism,” added Father Marrone. “But I suspect we’ll get accused of schism.”
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