Chicago protestors arrested in bid to stop church sale

Demonstrators were arrested after months of protests aiming to stop the sale of a historic Chicago Catholic church, and the removal of a parish statue.

Five Chicago Catholics were arrested Tuesday, as they protested the removal of a Pietà statue from a shuttered local Catholic church.

The arrests came after months of protests, as demonstrators have tried to prevent both a sale of the St. Adalbert’s church building in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, and the removal of a large Pietà statue, which was reloc…