BILLBOARDS in Cleveland Send a Message to Bishop Lennon

By Colleen O'Neill
WTAM
March 20, 2012

http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=122520&article=9922686

A Texas resident has purchased a billboard in Cleveland to get the message out about reopening 13 Northeast Ohio churches.

Elaine Andrews Carroll who attended St. Wendelin's Church when she was a child has put a message on a billboard on Carnegie Avenue near E. 13th Street. It reads, "Bishop of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese, reopen our church doors! Restore our parishes! Now!."

Carroll says this isn't to harass anyone but she wanted to make a statement. "We’re not giving up, we know in our hearts and souls this is wrong. These churches were wrongly closed, they need to be reopened."

Carroll is in the process of getting a second billboard put up in Cleveland.

Bishop Richard Lennon received decrees from the Vatican regarding his orders closing 13 churches last week. Lennon said on Wednesday his advisors are reviewing the rulings.

Lennon originally closed or merged 52 parishes in 2009 because of a decline in parishioners and a shortage of priests.

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