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It was more than four years ago that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced it would close four parishes "because of financial problems and also a shortage of priests," according to ABC's Dan Harris. Parishioners responded in anger because they believe "the archdiocese wants to sell off the churches to raise money to settle lawsuits from the priest sex abuse scandals." The parishioners responded with sit-ins in the targeted churches "in direct defiance of Vatican rules," Harris pointed out. The sit-ins have turned into "essentially a fully-functioning church" with rosary groups, a Sunday school and communion with wafers blessed by "anonymous sympathetic priests." In response, the archdiocese has cut off heat and water so the squatters worship in 25F cold.
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