Cleveland

Priest gets life term in child porn, exploitation case

By Associated Press — November 10, 2021
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — The Rev. Robert McWilliams was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Akron in front of an overflow gallery filled with the family of three victims.

‘High-Church Pentecostal’ leader J. Delano Ellis dies at 75

By Adelle M. Banks — September 21, 2020
(RNS) — ‘Traditionally,’ Ellis said in 1995, ‘the Pentecostal church maintained its ardor but was never really known for its order.’

Cleveland bishop named Philadelphia’s next archbishop

By Bruce Shipkowski — January 23, 2020
(AP) — Nelson Perez will succeed Charles Chaput as leader of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the Vatican announced Thursday, making him the first Hispanic archbishop to lead the region's 1.3 million-member flock.

Why Trump has a Catholic voter problem

By John Gehring — July 20, 2016
(RNS) Many moderate and conservative Catholics don’t seem to buy what Trump is selling.

Catholics eye Cleveland closures for national precedent

By Tracy Gordon — March 20, 2012

CLEVELAND (RNS) Catholics fighting church closings across the country are keeping their eyes on the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, where Bishop Richard Lennon's closure of 13 churches was overturned by the Vatican.Copies of the decrees are circulating electronically throughout the U.S. and even in Canada. By Michael O'Malley.

Cleveland bishop has 60 days to appeal church closures

By Tracy Gordon — March 15, 2012

CLEVELAND (RNS) The official Vatican decrees reversing the closings of 13 Catholic parishes finally reached the desk of Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon, giving him 60 days to decide on an appeal. By Michael O'Malley.

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