St. Anne's Shrine, a spectacular double-spired granite church in Fall River built by French-Canadians in the 1890s and early 1900s, closed Sunday with a final Mass celebrated by the bishop of the diocese.
The upstairs closed in 2015 because of failing plaster, and a recent study found it would take $13.5 million to fix the church. Bishop Edgar da Cunha decided to close it instead, saying the diocese has nowhere near enough money to make the needed repairs.
Fourteen employees of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections killed themselves between 2010 and 2016, according to state officials – a suicide rate about six times the state average.
A state commission is reviewing suicide prevention programs and trying to come up with ways to make mental health services more available to corrections officers, according to the Cape Cod Times.
