MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Herald
Brian Dowling Saturday, December 05, 2015
Parishioners at St. Frances X. Cabrini Church in Scituate said they will decide tomorrow how to respond to losing their appeal to keep their vigil — considering every “peaceful” option from a hunger strike to an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“We are going to take the good ideas and take the bad ideas,” said Jon Rogers, a spokesman for the parishioners who have occupied the church for 11 years. “Everything peaceful and prayerful is on the table.”
The parishioners have been asking Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley to visit and understand their opposition to closing the church to replenish the Archdiocese of Boston’s coffers that were drained by the sex abuse scandal and the outflow of people from the pews.
The state Supreme Judicial Court rejected the group’s appeal to stay in the church yesterday.
“I’m a little angry,” Rogers said. “The archdiocese’s response has been to close the church and sell it off — in essence stealing the place of worship and selling it to the highest bidder.”
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