Judge orders parishioners to end 11-year vigil in church

(The Christian Science Monitor) A group of parishioners who have staged an 11-year, 24-hour vigil inside a closed Roman Catholic church in Massachusetts have once again lost their appeal to keep it open.

They have said that they helped build and maintain the church since the 1960s.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Wednesday upheld the ruling of a lower court that the parishioners of St. Frances X. Cabrini Church are trespassing on property owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.