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New Orleans Police Evict Protesters From Closed Catholic Churches

By Howard M. Friedman

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports on yesterday's police eviction of protesters from two New Orleans Catholic churches that had been closed by the Archdiocese. Police were accompanied by lawyers from the city attorney's office and by members of the Archdiocese property management office who supervised changing of locks on the churches. Parishioners had occupied the churches for over ten weeks to protest their closure. The Archdiocese said it requested police assistance at Our Lady of Good Counsel and at St. Henry Church after protesters locked themselves in the buildings. The controversy began when Archbishop Alfred Hughes last April ordered 142 parishes reduced to 108.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).