A long-running debate over the state's estate tax revived on Beacon Hill as the Revenue Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature took up bills this week calling for reforms or outright abolition of the levies charged when assets are passed along following a person's death.
All four Roman Catholic dioceses in Massachusetts plan to allow signature gathering at churches by supporters of a measure that would amend the state constitution to make it clear that it doesn't require public funding of abortion.
Individual pastors will decide whether and where the gathering of signatures takes place but if it does it "must take place at a designated location(s) on the property away from the flow of parishioners approaching or departing from Holy Mass," according to new guidelines issued this week by the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, which represents the four Catholic bishops in the state.
