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O'Malley will keep open two parishes set for closing

By Michael Paulson and Bella English
Globe Staff / December 15, 2004

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Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley, facing intense opposition in multiple communities to his efforts to close more than one-fifth of the parishes in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, has decided to reverse his decisions to shutter parishes in West Newton and West Plymouth and has met privately with those leading round-the-clock occupations of closed churches in Sudbury and Weymouth. (Full article: 1400 words)

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