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Boston church's parishioners evicted after 12-year occupation
Source: The Guardian
Boston church's parishioners evicted after 12-year occupation
For 12 years parishioners maintained a vigil inside St Frances Xavier
Cabrini to prevent its sale to raise compensation funds for survivors
of sexual abuse
Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
Thursday 19 May 2016 09.00 BST
For the past 12 years, the church of St Frances Xavier Cabrini in Scituate, near Boston, has not been empty for a single moment.
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, a group of parishioners has maintained a vigil inside the building to prevent its sale by the archdiocese of Boston, to help pay the Catholic church’s enormous bills relating to its long history of child sexual abuse.
Children have slept in the sacristy, meals have been eaten beneath the stained glass windows, planning meetings have been held in the pews, prayers said and candles lit.
But not for much longer. After the supreme court this week declined to hear an appeal against an earlier court ruling, the parishioners must now vacate the premises, and will hold a final farewell service on 29 May.
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For 12 years parishioners maintained a vigil inside St Frances Xavier
Cabrini to prevent its sale to raise compensation funds for survivors
of sexual abuse
Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
Thursday 19 May 2016 09.00 BST
For the past 12 years, the church of St Frances Xavier Cabrini in Scituate, near Boston, has not been empty for a single moment.
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, a group of parishioners has maintained a vigil inside the building to prevent its sale by the archdiocese of Boston, to help pay the Catholic church’s enormous bills relating to its long history of child sexual abuse.
Children have slept in the sacristy, meals have been eaten beneath the stained glass windows, planning meetings have been held in the pews, prayers said and candles lit.
But not for much longer. After the supreme court this week declined to hear an appeal against an earlier court ruling, the parishioners must now vacate the premises, and will hold a final farewell service on 29 May.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/19/st-frances-xavier-cabrini-boston-church-catholic-clergy-abuse