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• n  the diocese of an archbishop

• The archdiocese has one thing going for it that other career recruiters don't a captive audience.
• An Archdiocese lawyer told reporters that Mahony had made several trips to Rome in recent weeks to get the Vatican's support for the deal.
• A beloved Milwaukee priest known for his jocular demeanor (he once said Mass in a bright orange Wisconsin-cheesehead hat) and for restoring the archdiocese's reputation following a .

News & Articles

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• Archdiocese cuts number of parishes
  The archdiocese of Indianapolis will decrease the number of parishes in southern Indiana from 30 to 20 due to shifting populations in area communities.
  June 14, 2013 - The Seymour Tribune
• Indianapolis archdiocese downsizing in S. Indiana
  BATESVILLE (AP) - The archdiocese of Indianapolis plans to decrease the number of parishes in southern Indiana from 30 to 20 due to shifting populations in area communities.
  June 11, 2013 - Rushville Republican
• Archdiocese closing 12 southern parishes
  The Archdiocese of Indianapolis says it will decrease the number of parishes in one part of Southern Indiana from 30 to 20 due to shifting populations in area communities.
  June 10, 2013 - Louisville Courier-Journal

Quotes

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• Raymond Flynn in Guardian Unlimited
  The future of the Catholic church in America is the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. It will have an extraordinarily negative impact,Flynn said. "There will be a lot of pain, a lot of cutbacks in services."
• Michael Bloomberg in Reuters UK
  Pope Benedict could not have picked a better time to come to New York -- a beautiful spring weekend, the 200th anniversary of the archdiocese of New York, and on top of that it's Passover,Bloomberg said.
• Cardinal Francis George in The Southern
  The sexual abuse of children is a sin and a crime,George said in the statement. "When the abuser is a priest, the whole church is affected. Such misconduct by a priest or anyone else associated with the archdiocese cannot be tolerated."