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The Patriot Ledger
By Fred Hanson
The Patriot Ledger
Posted Mar. 20, 2015
A Norfolk Superior Court judge is considering a request that would order the parishioners out of St. Frances Cabrini Church after a decade-long vigil.
Judge Edward Leibensperger gave lawyers representing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and the Friends of St. Frances Cabrini until Tuesday to make additional filings in the case. He did not give any indication on when he would issue his ruling.
The archdiocese brought the action after parishioners failed to meet a March 6 deadline for leaving the church.
“The defendants have no right to occupy the church,” said Bill Dailey, a lawyer representing the archdiocese said during an hour-long court hearing on Friday. “There is no legal right to occupy the church.”
Dailey said the archdiocese allowed the group to occupy the church while it appealed the decision to close the church. The Vatican’s highest court, the Apostolic Signatura, last summer upheld the archdiocese’s decision to close the church.
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