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Description: ASHLAND – The Vatican has rejected a state lawmaker's appeal of the merger of three Roman Catholic parishes.
Article originally prepared on : 13 February 2007
ASHLAND – The Vatican has rejected a state lawmaker's appeal of the merger of three Roman Catholic parishes.
InJuly 2006, Bishop John McCormack announced that St. Agnes Church inAshland, St. Timothy in Bristol and St. Matthew in Plymouth would bemerged to form Holy Trinity Parish.
The Diocese of Manchester said the churches in Ashland and Bristol would close and all congregations would meet in Plymouth.
Amonth later, Rep. Fran Wendelboe sent a letter of appeal to the Vaticanlinking the merger to a loss of respect for the state's Roman Catholicleaders because of the priest sex abuse scandal.
The Vatican recently rejected that appeal, but Wendelboe, R-New Hampton, said she isn't giving up.
Shehopes to raise $10,000 to take the matter to the Supreme Tribunal ofthe Apostolic Signatura, the Roman Catholic Church's highest court.
PatrickMcGee, a spokesman for the Diocese of Manchester, has said the decisionto merge the churches is part of a statewide attempt to deal with themovement of New Hampshire Catholics from urban to suburban parishes andthe serious shortage of priests.
He denies Wendelboe's claim that the sex abuse scandal led to the decision.
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