Posted on 11/23/2021 6:16:54 PM PST by marshmallow
They are protesting the sale of the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul. In 2017, the archbishopric won partial restitution of the complex. Curia accused of wanting to sell the adjoining buildings to pay its debts and not in order to buy the historic place of worship.
Moscow (AsiaNews) - Muscovite Catholics have posted an open letter on Facebook addressed to Archbishop Paolo Pezzi and all local church authorities, up to the apostolic nuncio Giovanni D'Aniello, to protest the sale of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul. It is the main historic Catholic church in the capital; the complex of buildings, used by private individuals for commercial activities, had been requested by Catholics since the 1990s, and was finally partially returned in 2017. However, the Moscow curia has put it up for sale for purposes yet to be fully ascertained.
The church of Sts. Peter and Paul is located in the center of Moscow, about a hundred meters from the one dedicated to St. Louis of the French, which was returned to France in 1992 and now hosts celebrations of many communities. With the letter of October 20, local Catholics are asking to be allowed to return to the premises of the historic church, built in the mid 1800s thanks in part to the efforts of holy men such as the German doctor Friedrich Haass, founder of the Russian public hospitals of the modern era, for whom the beatification process is underway.
The restitution process concerns four buildings, which according to Russian laws must be returned to Catholics. The 2017 decision concerned the secondary parts of the complex, which could be sold to obtain the former church building proper, now privately owned. The local curia had been engaged since 2016 in a civil lawsuit to obtain the right to purchase........
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I lived in Russia and went to Catholic mass faithfully during my stays in both Moscow and St. Petersburg. And served at the latter (St. Catherine of Alexandria.) Prayers up.
The Russians fight for a church. We lock them down and don’t care.
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