The city of New Bedford has rescinded its 100-person limit on church gatherings — regardless of the size of the church — in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo from severely limiting attendance at church services there.
On November 25, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a preliminary injunction against coronavirus restrictions in New York state in the case Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo. The court ruled 5-4 that 10-person or 25-person limits on in-person church services for Catholic churches and Orthodox Jewish synagogues in certain counties are not constitutional because they violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
A former Catholic school principal is among the Massachusetts state representatives who voted for an abortion expansion amendment that would remove a current requirement that doctors try to save the life of a baby who has survived an attempted abortion.
State Representative Steven Ultrino (D-Malden) served from July 2004 to June 2008 as principal of St. Mary's in Winchester, which is a Catholic elementary school connected with the town's parish. It is a school of the Archdiocese of Boston. Before that, he was a teacher at Malden Catholic (which is also an archdiocesan school) from 2001 to 2004, as his LinkedIn page confirms.
