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	Cleveland Bishop Warns Breakaway Flock's Priest Columbus Dispatch January 24, 2011 http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/01/24/24-cleveland-bishop.html?sid=101 CLEVELAND (AP) - Cleveland's Roman Catholic bishop has warned a priest to stop ministering to a breakaway congregation. In a letter last week, Bishop Richard Lennon threatened to punish the Rev. Robert Marrone for celebrating Mass for former parishioners of St. Peter Church. The church near downtown was closed last April as part of ongoing downsizing by the diocese. The bishop's letter called it "scandal" and "corruption" that the priest was saying Masses in a commercial building not sanctioned by the diocese. The Plain Dealer reports Marrone responded in a letter he read to the congregation on Sunday. He wrote the bishop that he would remain in what he called his "present position with the Community of St. Peter." It's not clear how the priest could be punished.
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