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According to the Boston Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini closed 11 years ago.
However, its congregants see things quite differently. For these past 11 years, they have been holding “vigils in shifts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week – sleeping on the floor and in pews and holding Sunday service…”
Jon Rogers, founder of The Friends of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, explained to Fox News that this church was “thriving” when the decision was made to close it.
Some congregants are therefore claiming that the archdiocese is eyeing the prime real estate that the church sits upon in order to “pay off clergy sex abuse cases.”
Rogers stated: You don’t get to hurt children and then steal our
church to pay off your crimes. He feels that St. Frances Xavier Cabrini belongs to the parishioners who have “maintained the 55-year-old building over the years, spending thousands of dollars on repairs and renovations…”
Archdiocese spokesman Terry Donilon emphatically denies the accusations about paying off sex-abuse cases. He claims
that St Frances Xavier Cabrini had experienced “a decline in Mass attendance.”
The archdiocese is meanwhile still paying “for the electricity and heat, as well as the occasional landscaping and snow plowing.”
So whose church is it?
Does it belong to those “rebel occupants” who are willing to be “arrested as trespassers, if necessary,” or is it instead the Vatican’s?
Perhaps the One to whom the Church actually belongs will help them all to settle this dispute peacefully…
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