Court To Decide Fate Of Scituate Church On Brink Of Closure
SCITUATE (CBS) – For more than a decade, parishioners at a church in Scituate have been holding a non-stop vigil to keep it from shutting its doors. On Tuesday, members of St. Frances X. Cabrini took their pleas to court.
The Archdiocese of Boston called for the closure of the church. In April 2015, a judge denied the Archdiocese's request to oust the parishioners from the church.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley sent a letter to the group in 2014 after they lost an appeal to the Vatican's highest court urging members to accept the ruling, and leave the building the Church tried to close and sell in 2004 in the wake of the priest abuse scandal.
Parishioners believe the church was unfairly targeted for closure because of the value of the property.
"You're talking about a church that was bought for, paid for, and to this day we work hard on to maintain by the persons of St. Francis, not by the Archdiocese of Boston," a parishioner told WBZ NewsRadio1030.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Karen Twomey reports