After changing locks, parishioners ordered to stand down

Parishioners and local community members changed the locks on the church and hung signs saying "potential buyers are not welcome."

When Catholics at Holy Rosary Portugal Cove-South in Newfoundland heard their church was being sold as part of an archdiocesan bankruptcy filing and abuse settlement, they decided to take matters into their own hands.

Local Catholics and members of the local historical society in the small coastal Canadian fishing town teamed up to find a way to stop the…