Posted on 07/02/2022 6:24:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Archdiocese of Santa Fe is asking parishes to help provide at least $12 million of $75 million needed to satisfy the terms of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings stemming from hundreds of clergy abuse lawsuits — and one method to help fund the debt will be to mortgage the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.
A June 17 letter from Archbishop John C. Wester informed parishes of the intention to mortgage the cathedral in Santa Fe, considered by many as the emotional and spiritual center for Roman Catholics in New Mexico.
“If the market value is not enough to collatoralize the loan, an additional property may be required to collatoralize the loan,” Wester wrote. “Any property mortgaged will not be lost because of the collective commitment of the parishes to pay the debt.”
In the letter, Wester wrote the archdiocese must provide $65 million by Sept. 30 and the final $10 million by March 31.
In order to do that, Wester wrote, parishes in the archdiocese would collectively need to provide $12 million.
“This is beyond the parish cash and sale of parish property committed last year for the parish channeling injunction,” Wester wrote.
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Yup
Keep donating every Sunday
Gotta pay for our pervert priests we hid from the laity, and shuffled around withing and between dioceses.
They are asking their entire congregations to be suckers, once again.
Maybe that will knock down a few illegal immigrant smuggling sponsorships 🤪
"First in-person LGBTQ Catholic ministry conference held in the US"
No, those are funded by your tax dollars.
What a shame. Well, Santa Fe’s gone to hell anyway. Now that my mother is dead, I doubt I’ll go back.
Rent it out as a mosque.
In thee old days they could maybe sell some indulgences.
I am happy to see the Roman Catholic Church paying for it sins. I only pray the Catholics will wise up and become Protestant. The RCC has been pure evil for over 1600 years and now even has a Pope who believes he is God. I also doubt that when Christ returns he will not be happy seeing ornate multimillion dollar cathedrals filled with idols and idol worshipers while even in America children go without food. Now if we could get people to sue the Islamic Mosque for genital mutilations, killing of women who are raped, and teaching of children to hate and kill anyone who is not Islamic, but we know that will never happen.
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