MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Globe
May 23, 2012|Lisa Wangsness
Parishioners of a half-dozen closed Roman Catholic churches fighting to reopen their parishes for many as eight years have suffered another setback, but they are not ready to give up yet.
A Vatican department has rejected all six groups’ appeals of a decision by Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston, to make the churches available for nonreligious use.
But five of the six churches plan to appeal to the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican’s highest court, according to their representatives.
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