{"id":102419,"date":"2026-08-31T03:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=102419"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:25:09","slug":"massachusetts-high-court-rules-against-saints-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/learn\/massachusetts-high-court-rules-against-saints-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"La haute cour du Massachusetts se prononce contre les statues de saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Two statues of Catholic saints will remain off of a Massachusetts city\u2019s new public safety building for the foreseeable future now that the state\u2019s highest court has upheld a lower court order prohibiting them from being erected.The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday that the $850,000, 10-foot-tall bronze statues of St. Michael and St. Florian are so closely allied with Catholicism that putting them on a public building would amount to \u201cgovernment preferential treatment of a particular religion,\u201d thus violating\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two statues of Catholic saints will remain off of a Massachusetts city\u2019s new public safety building for the foreseeable future now that the state\u2019s highest court has upheld a lower court order prohibiting them from being erected.The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday that the $850,000, 10-foot-tall bronze statues of St. Michael and St. Florian are so closely allied with Catholicism that putting them on a public building would amount to \u201cgovernment preferential treatment of a particular religion,\u201d thus violating\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-102419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_publicize_connections","jetpack-related-posts","jetpack_sharing_enabled","jetpack_featured_media_url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104034,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102419\/revisions\/104034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102419"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=102419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}