A Boston-area mayor is fighting a group of residents over his decision to commission two statues of Catholic saints for the facade of a new city building — at an estimated cost of $850,000. Critics ...

State trial court judge says St. Michael and St. Florian statues ‘patently endorse Catholic beliefs.’ The mayor says the city will appeal. (L-R) Statues of St. Florian and St. Michael are currently ...

Two large Catholic saint statues planned for display outside a new public safety headquarters in Quincy are part of a legal dispute, as the government building display could cost taxpayers thousands ...

But critics of the planned statues of St. Michael and St. Florian say they impermissibly favor Catholicism over other religions. (L-R) Statues of St. Florian and St. Michael are planned for the ...

A judge on Tuesday barred Quincy officials from installing two Catholic statues outside a city public safety building until a lawsuit opposing them on constitutional grounds is resolved. In a 26-page ...

Fifteen religious and non-religious Quincy residents are suing Mayor Thomas Koch over recently discovered plans to install controversial Catholic patron saint statues on the front of the city’s new ...

Quincy faith leaders oppose the placement of two 10-foot Catholic saint statues on the new public safety headquarters façade. The $850,000 statues of St. Michael and St. Florian are seen as by some ...

A Massachusetts trial court judge has issued an order blocking the installation of statues of two Catholic saints on a new public safety building in the city of Quincy, setting up a likely appeal that ...

Mike Cotter has a lot in common with Thomas Koch, Quincy’s mayor of the last 17 years. Both are city natives and lifelong residents. Their fathers worked together as milkmen. And both were raised in ...