Maybe the Youngstown Diocese should have spent the 10k on something other than anti gay votes

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http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/03/youngstown_diocese_closes_buil.html

A proposal by the six-county Youngstown diocese would see the closings of 25 of its 112 parishes through mergers.

The proposal also calls for "collaborations" that would group two or more parishes, keeping them open but having them share priests and staff. Cleveland has no collaborations.

Youngstown parishes had until March 15 to challenge the proposals. Zuraw said there were nine challenges -- four parishes asked to stay as they are and five asked to collaborate rather than merge.

Zuraw said Youngstown Bishop George Murry will meet with parishes to hear challenges and concerns and will announce his decisions May 23. From that date, it could take from six months to a year to close churches.

The monsignor said the diocese's proposal could change between now and May and that fewer than 25 could close. "The bishop did not want to set a number," he said. "That stifles collaboration. That says to the people, 'OK, the decisions have been made.' And that's not fair to the process.

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http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2009/11/50-us-catholic-dioceses-contributed-to.html

A report just published by the National Catholic Reporter reveals that while half of the $550K donated by the Catholic Church to Maine's marriage equality battle came from the Portland Diocese, the rest came from 50 dioceses around the country. Portland Bishop Richard Malone brought in $86,000 in one fell swoop, from that infamous second collection taken at Mass statewide. Across the nation, Catholic dioceses kicked in amounts ranging from $50,000 to as little as $150.
After Portland, Maine, the largest diocesan contributors were the Philadelphia archdiocese and Phoenix diocese, each giving $50,000. The sees of Newark, N.J., St. Louis, Mo., and Youngstown, Ohio, each contributed $10,000.

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Now I realize that 10k would hardly keep open those parishes but for a diocese which is closing just short of 1/4 of its churchs to spend five figures using the political process to deny gays they don't even know the right to marry is nothing short of obscene. My hometown will likely lose one of its two parishes if not both.

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1. kick

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2. And kicked again, dsc -

the Church doesn't know - again - what it's up against.