Posted on 05/02/2021 6:29:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Archdiocese of Santa Fe is expected to sell off hundreds of properties by this summer in order to fund settlements of sex abuse lawsuits.
The archdiocese, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018, plans to part with more than 700 properties, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported Sunday.
Nearly 400 claims of abuse, some of which allegedly occurred decades ago, have been filed.
According to court records, the archdiocese in the last several months has requested a bankruptcy judge grant a request to sell properties in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Raton, Sandia Park and Edgewood. Those sales alone reaped $7.5 million. Most of it stemmed from selling off a large part of the Carmelite Monastery Complex in Santa Fe.
The documents also indicate church officials have hired an auctioneer firm out of Florida to oversee the sale of 732 properties by July 21. A lot of the properties are vacant lots no bigger than a couple of acres. They are spread across the state including Valencia, Sandoval, Santa Fe and Bernalillo counties.
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Wow!!
Yeah, they’re broke. /s
It’s a good thing the Catholic Church stockpiles hundreds and hundreds of properties. So that they can sell them when they are sued out the wazoo for buggering little boys.
Very sad.
I wonder what was the occupancy of the Carmelite monastery.
Get rid of the unconstitutional income tax and remove such tax write-off donations. Let the Church answer to their congregations monthly.
The easiest solution is to screen for the homosexuality of the new priests and slam the door on them. Why won’t the Catholic Church do that?
My great grandfather built a church on his land around 1900. Many families in New Mexico did this. They had priests who came around about once a month to give Mass and they had family cemeteries. I know that my great grandfather’s church is still in the middle of his descendants land. But the church and I believe one acre was deeded to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. I wonder what will happen to this property. If it is in the midst of someone’s ranch, will it be accessed by a new buyer? My first cousin owns the ranch. I will have to ask him.
Is there a site to check out properties for sale by ALL these Catholics needing to sale off properties?
How do you screen them?
sad.....
what a situation....good hard working people, many of them immigrants from Poland and Germany and Italy and Ireland and Spain etc etc over the centuries have worked and paid for Catholic churches, schools, orphanages, hospitals, old people’s homes....only to be stabbed in the back by the homosexual cabal.....protecting each other and their inner sanctums....
I am acquainted with two such scenarios in New Mexico. BTW, I am not a lawyer and the precise details are important. Also in NM, it is not uncommon to encounter land deeds based on Spanish land grants and US government homestead deeds. Both of the below are land issues near Santa Fe in the Glorieta Pass area.
This example could fit to your question to some degree. A family friend bought a large tract of land that had a small isolated parcel in the middle of it. The friend was not legally obligated to sell the parcel owner a road easement so didn't do so. Eventually, the parcel owner sold out to the friend.
A couple of miles away from the location above, my Dad bought several hundred acres of land that had a homestead deed. One of the original owner's sons had kept up the taxes all through the 1930s Depression and into the 1970s when he wanted to sell. The complication was that there were 15 or 20 heirs with a fractional ownership interest due to to inheritance. One holdout heir would not sign a quit claim deed and wanted a couple of acres of land instead. The problem was that the heir wanted land right in these middle of the parcel instead of any location on a boundary edge. This had to go to court to resolve in Dad's favor.
So, a trip to the country clerks office is in order to copy the deed history of the property as a whole and the acre or so owned by the Church. This will give you a handle on property issues but a lawyer is likely in your future.
FTA....
....The archdiocese filed for reorganization in late 2018 to deal with the surge of claims. An estimated $52 million has been paid in out-of-court settlements to victims in prior years.....
THAT is a LOT of payout, for this archiocese.
Sickening.
Celebreties have likely swooped any of value up, already.
I think these are mostly acre, to 2 acre lots.
That property should be sold to church members first.
They tried, but the database ran out of space.
Try reading with comprehension. The faithful give small chunks of land to the Church that have the potential to serve the purposes of the Church, but the vast majority are of minimal to no value for anything else.
THe odd one that is given where a substantial city grows up, or that is large enough to support a community of Monks or Nuns will have the potential to increase in value—but there is (or was) also a need to have land on which to locate activities of the CHurch in these places.
List of offending priests:
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/AtAGlance/diocesan_and_order_lists.htm
Thank you so much for your research. I appreciate your answer very much. I did contact my cousin today and he had no idea but will look into the process. On Find a Grave the story is that the family formally deeded the land to the Archdiocese in 1917 but that it continued as Holy Family parish until the 80s. I know one of my great aunts was buried there in 1972.
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