MASSACHUSETTS
CBS Boston
SCITUATE (CBS/AP) – A group of the parishioners who have held a vigil at their closed church for more than a decade is asking for mercy from Cardinal Sean O’Malley.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed a judge’s ruling Wednesday that parishioners at St. Frances X. Cabrini Church in Scituate are trespassing on property owned by the Archdiocese of Boston.
The archdiocese shut down the church in 2004 as part of a reorganization effort to pay financial settlements in the priest sex abuse crisis. The parishioners have fought the closing by occupying it for 24 hours a day for the last 11 years.
Legally they can continue their fight with a petition that must be filed in the next two weeks.
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