The Nation - News from Feb. 20, 1989
About 100 people gathered outside St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church in Bridgeport, Conn., kneeling, singing and praying before the locked doors of the building that protesters had occupied for nearly a week. Diocese leaders closed the predominantly Polish church until further notice Saturday after police removed dissident parishioners who had occupied the church to protest the transfers of a popular pastor and an assistant priest and to demand that the current pastor leave. “The doors are locked, but we want to show the world we won’t quit,” said Halina Chmiel of Milford, one of the leaders of the protest.
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