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I followed the link in the article about the Hindu group buying a church in the Diocese of Rochester. What is in the article is truly shocking - and should exclude such a group being considered as a buyer for any church property or chattel. It is much worse than turning the building in to an XXX club.

What Ed and JD may not know is that Cardinal George Pell recovered a church to sacred use while he was Archbishop of Melbourne. There had been an inner-city church that was sold under an earlier Archbishop without due care, and it went from being a hostel to a house of ill repute. When Cardinal Pell was appointed Archbishop he moved the diocesan seminary from the outer suburbs in poorly built shacks to the inner city and set up the Catholic Theological College to be much more central. As part of the move, the former church was purchased and is now the chapel for the seminary.

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Conversely, there is an SSPX chapel just over a mile from me now that is a converted Masonic Lodge.

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