“As the parish goes, so goes the faith of the people.”

— Anthony Pilla

from Vibrant Parish Life http://web.archive.org/web/20020826224835/http://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/vibrantparishlife/vpl_initiative.html, a pastoral letter published in 2001.

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auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland, titular Bishop of Scardona, … 1932

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