"Positive developments?"
Remember when Cardinal Mahony said his closing of St. John's College Seminary was a positive development?
And remember the dissenter who said that the great exodus from the Church in recent decades has been a good thing because what we have left is "a thinking Church?" (If he thinks he is an example of "a thinking Church," he should think again.)
Well, those two abysmal statements came to mind last week, prompted by a small but tragic story in USA Today (I have the hard copy of the story, but did not date it).
The story said that "Bishop" Gilbert Thompson, founder of the Boston-area 7,000-member evangelical Jubilee Christian Church in Mattapan, is buying "a closed Roman Catholic parish in Stoughton" to "serve about 2,000 congregants in the Brockton and Stoughton areas." (The price is $3 million, by the way.)
Will we be seeing "positive developments" such as that in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles? Does Cardinal Roger "560 Lawsuits" Mahony have a potential closures-and-selloff plan worked out already? We should be telling him right now that we do not want ANY of our Catholic churches, schools or other facilities closed and sold.
Except for the Yellow Armadillo. Now, that would be a truly positive development.
And remember the dissenter who said that the great exodus from the Church in recent decades has been a good thing because what we have left is "a thinking Church?" (If he thinks he is an example of "a thinking Church," he should think again.)
Well, those two abysmal statements came to mind last week, prompted by a small but tragic story in USA Today (I have the hard copy of the story, but did not date it).
The story said that "Bishop" Gilbert Thompson, founder of the Boston-area 7,000-member evangelical Jubilee Christian Church in Mattapan, is buying "a closed Roman Catholic parish in Stoughton" to "serve about 2,000 congregants in the Brockton and Stoughton areas." (The price is $3 million, by the way.)
Will we be seeing "positive developments" such as that in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles? Does Cardinal Roger "560 Lawsuits" Mahony have a potential closures-and-selloff plan worked out already? We should be telling him right now that we do not want ANY of our Catholic churches, schools or other facilities closed and sold.
Except for the Yellow Armadillo. Now, that would be a truly positive development.
posted by Quintero at 5:27 PM
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Speaking of buying and selling church property, I heard from someone last night that the selling of the college seminary in Camarillo has run into a few snags. Apparently there was some deed/in its history saying that the property could not be used for anything but Catholic education... which could get in the way of the sale. Have you heard anything about this?
The problem with selling the big yellow blob is, who on earth would buy it?
Karen,
It was designed to be sold off to the Scientologists.
It already looks like a spaceship.
They've got the bucks.
Kale
Hahaha
The more modern ones are close to empty on Sundays anyways...
Our Lady of Lourdes in Montclair... a buncha words like dei and domini and the AISLES were full of people... go figure.
Then the priest sez if you have missed a Mass or have a civil marriage or are shacking up don't even threaten the state of your mortal soul with sacrelige by taking communion... woohoo
The purchase of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, by the Jubilee Christian Church, was discussed over at Angelqueen:
http://www.angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6695
God bless you
QUINTERO:
HAPPY FIRST ANNIVERSARY! Your first post was April 12, 2005.
This is a great blog. I am spreading the word.
This piece seems to assess the state of our Archdiocese rather well:
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/comment/neumayr200604120719.asp
Dear Jonathan,
Thanks very much for remembering! That's kind of you.
Felicidades to you, too, and to all of us here in this little cyber-corner of L.A. who seek to do our best for Catholic truth and against the dissenters.
Dear Clayton,
Thank you for the hot tip. I will "make inquiries."
Incidentally, correct me if I am wrong about this, but I believe that years ago the Archdiocese sold off the seminary's original Gutenberg Bible and other items, contrary to Mrs. Doheny's will.
Dear Karen and Kale,
People suggest lots of uses. What if we could un-wreckovate it and turn it into a recognizably Catholic cathedral? (True, that would take a lot of work.)
Or, failing that, if the Cardinal ever got another helicopter, the Cathedral, once de-consecrated, might make a good hangar.
Dear Dave,
Thanks for the news!
Dear Barbara,
Thanks very much for the link, and God bless you, too.
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