as to the ownership. How can this be a clusterfuck? Whose name is the deed is? Who is paying for the maintenance? Why should this be so hard to determine???

If it was given to the nuns, it is their property. If it was given to the "church", it is owned by the RCC. My understanding is that all property is the church's, but that may not be the case.

But I have to give credit to those nuns for giving the middle finger to the Archdiocese.

and that should determine everything, whether he gave it to the RCC to be used as a convent to bribe his way out of hell, or whether it was given directly to the order to accomplish the same goal. And, as you said, the deed should have the information on it, too.

It's just a question of locating the paperwork from when god was a lad.

Good for those old nuns. I am not impressed with Katy Perry, either.

Praying for the dead is tied to an old piece of catholic dogma that is no longer in practice. It basically states there is a waiting period to get into heaven and its very long. Prayers said for someone who died supposedly shorten the individual's waiting period. There are a lot of historical donations to the church which were basically payments to have nuns pray to shorten their wait after they die. Hence why the building donated by a guy who wanted to be prayed for is a nunnery.

Its still crazy BS and basically another form of church extortion but its not strictly bribing your way out of hell. They called that one an "indulgence."

This is an example of a wealthy man bequeathing his camel that he might thread the eye of the needle. I find the idea morally repugnant, and the discredited practice a form of spiritual blackmail.

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