Voice of the faithful is heard on Long Island: despite `edict' locking them out of Catholic churches, grass-roots group is determined to keep going. (Church In Crisis).
From: National Catholic Reporter
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Date: 9/27/2002
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Author: Ryan, Dick
Voice of the Faithful got off to a modest start on Long Island, N.Y., on Aug. 1 when 100 Catholics gathered for the first time in a meeting room at St. Sylvester Church in Medford. But plans for a second meeting at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church in Wyandanch came to an abrupt halt when Bishop William Murphy of the Rockville Centre diocese issued what the diocese termed an "edict" banning Voice of the Faithful from ever meeting in any Catholic church facility on Long Island.
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