i'm joined now by parish member mary ellen rogers. mary ellen, were you baptized at this church, your first commune onthere, were you married there. there have been family funerals at that church. what are you fealing right-- feeling right now? >> i'm feeling a broken heart. but more so that our cardinal, cardinal sean o'malley has never reached out to us and come to this church. he's never stepped foot in this church over the past 11 and a half years. >> reporter: what is going to happen to the church at this point. and its seaside property there. >> well, we are on 30 acres of prime coastal real estate. so if you look around the neighborhood, there's multimillion dollar homes being built that this church will be bull doazed and there will be large houses going up here. >> reporter: mary ellen rogers, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> quijano: well, we have a winner at the 100th indianapolis 500. >> check erred flag. you just won the indy 500, baby! >> quijano: rookie alexander rossi took the trophy. he's just 24 years

. >> reporter: that's how long mary ellen and john rogers and 100 parishioners occupied this church in massachusetts. holding around the clock vigil despite a decision by the boston archdiocese to close the church as part of a reorganization. >> we took this all the way to the vatican supreme court and we took it to the united states supreme court. >> reporter: marti o'brien joined the parish when it opened in 1961. we met her seven years ago. >> i'm not going to die until i can get buried right in front of that church. i'm stickin' around. did you hear that, god? i'm still here, but i guess i won't get buried from here. >> reporter: the 86-year-old spitfire sat in these pews up to five days a week. >> do you feel your faith has gone unrewarded? >> not my faith in god. my faith in hierarchy at least in this archdiocese, yes. >> reporter: time has not tempered the fury toward's boston's cardinal sean o'malley. he has welcomed the people back to the archdiocese but few plan to accept. >> i think we were naive in thinking that we could change the church from within. >> reporter: with the