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I admit it’s a conundrum dealing with a once-beautiful and meaningful property in a neighborhood that has new life…but I guess with not enough Catholics to justify reopening as a church — which it clearly is. So what do you do with it, and who pays? A conundrum, for sure, but “religious freedom”? Aw come on now.
I suggest the city buy it at fmv and add it to its inventory of empty buildings(see, for example , the old city hall). Then they can sell them as a package to some developer who must restore them to their former grandeur with conditions no one can afford. A brilliant idea if I must say so myself.
The church is not willing to sell it “as is” because they do not want the church to be used for something like the St Joseph Brewery, at least that is their argument. If they sell it they have no control over how it is used in the future by future owners and don’t want to see their holy place desecrated. But, they have the process of deconsecration (or secularization) for this very reason. It is the formal removal of a religious blessing from a church building to allow consecrated spaces to be sold, repurposed or demolished. Since they want to demolish it I assume they have already deconsecrated it, so their argument doesn’t seem to stand imho. I think it basically comes down to money. They can get more $ from a developer from the cleared land than they can from selling a building that needs millions of dollars in maintenance.