As a Catholic, I concur; the maintenance costs on old churches are enormous, and if there is no congregation to serve why not close it, sell the property, and use the proceeds to support other parishes/schools.
Never happen the money is kept for the Rich Vatican they could care less about the cost of the schools or maintaining them. They rely on donations to keep the schools in working order.
“Never happen the money is kept for the Rich Vatican they could care less about the cost of the schools or maintaining them. They rely on donations to keep the schools in working order.”
Not true; in the NYC area dozens of schools close annually, and those that survive are often heavily subsidized by their dioceses (as parish collections can no longer cover their operating deficits). I don’t know that the Vatican sees any of this money, though I believe dioceses pay “taxes” of some sort to the Vatican. Catholic education is becoming a thing of the past here, and for empty churches the end is near as well.
Do you get your information out of tiny illustrated newsprint publications?
Catholic church properties belong to the local Diocese, not to the "rich Vatican."
And the Vatican’s fungible assets are worth about a billion dollars, a mere drop in the bucket compared to, say, Harvard University’s $27 billion endowment.
Pencil that into your comic book, please.