Tower City NewsLocal news for Tower City, PA continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Parish to appeal to higher power- July 9, 2008 Five days before the final services in 47 churches the Allentown Catholic Diocese has set for closing or consolidation, a Schuylkill County parish said Monday that Bishop Thomas Cullen has rejected its plea to stay open.Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Tower City -- at the western edge of the county, the farthest edge of the diocese -- learned Saturday by letter that Cullen rejected the appeal, parishioner Tessa Stauffer said. Her church had been the first to appeal its closure.The diocese...http://www.topix.net/city/tower-city-pa/2008/07/parish-to-appeal-to-higher-power?fromrss=1 |