MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Herald

Brian Dowling Friday, March 04, 2016

Parishioners occupying St. Frances X. Cabrini Catholic Church in Scituate are making their last stand — petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to let them stay in their beloved church, which the Archdiocese of Boston has sought to close for more than a decade.

“We made a promise from Day 1 that we would exhaust every avenue of appeal, and this filing to the U.S. Supreme Court completes that promise,” said Jon Rogers, spokesman for the churchgoers, who have held vigil at the church since October 2004. “If they take this, I believe we will win.”

A Norfolk Superior Court judge ruled last May that the people holding vigil at the church were “trespassing,” siding with the archdiocese’s request to evict the parishioners. In October, the state Appeals Court upheld that decision, and the Supreme Judicial Court declined to review the…