{"id":85662,"date":"2026-08-21T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85662"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:28:48","slug":"massachusetts-city-cant-display-catholic-statues-high-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/massachusetts-city-cant-display-catholic-statues-high-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts City Can&#8217;t Display Catholic Statues, High Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Newsbreak<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NaMR7Qx2rlHiSo0Cp7WJmYjl8gDeTAy_tgE5zBtlce5Ya9j5-BLYm14J2fiUk_WlBPh1zbxFK5HUv6Xd_uAJhVgcwX5QyD-FfHxdxes85t4eCHRDwvIzCWa=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/img\/id\/2hJVDc_1EQRDyaW00?type=_180x000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The highest court in Massachusetts has unanimously affirmed a lower court ruling prohibiting Quincy Mayor Tom Koch from erecting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/doc\/fitzmaurice-v-city-of-quincy-sjc-g13877\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">10-foot-tall bronze statues of two Catholic saints<\/a>\u00a0on the facade of the city&#8217;s new public safety building.<\/p>\n<p>A group of residents in Quincy, a city around 10 miles south of Boston, sued over the matter in May 2025. The following September, Judge William Sullivan determined that Koch and the city probably violated the state&#8217;s constitutional prohibition against favoring one religious denomination over another or favoring religion over non-religion. Sullivan&#8217;s order, known as a preliminary injunction, barred installation of the statues until the case, which is still pending in Norfolk Superior Court, reaches a final resolution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-placement\">\n<div>\n<div data-collapse-on-empty=\"true\">\n<div id=\"nb-lazy-103\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Newsbreak: The highest court in Massachusetts has unanimously affirmed a lower court ruling prohibiting Quincy Mayor Tom Koch from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85664,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85662\/revisions\/85664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}