No clear signs that Legislature will act swiftly on child sexual abuse amendment
The Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a Roman Catholic church, in Mission Hill, Boston on Dec. 10, 2025. (Maria Pemberton / CommonWealth Beacon)
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The Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a Roman Catholic church, in Mission Hill, Boston on Dec. 10, 2025. (Maria Pemberton / CommonWealth Beacon)
A polling location in Ward 19 on Massachusetts’s primary day, 2026.
Massachusetts voters on primary day in September.
Somerville polling place. (Photo via Creative Commons/Flickr by Andrew Malone)
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Gabrielle Wolohojian at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston.
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The golden dome of the Massachusetts State House.
Campaign signs outside a Boston polling place during the 2021 municipal election. (Photo by Michael Jonas)
William Brownsberger at signing of the PROTECT Act alongside Governor Maura Healey on August 5, 2026.
Washington and Summer street in downtown Boston
At Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Danielle Allen, a Harvard University professor who founded the group advancing Question 3, and Jordan Berg Powers, chair of Voting Rights MA, which is opposing the ballot question, face off…
The House Chamber in the Massachusetts State House in Boston.