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Archbishop’s residence sold for $10M [Philadelphia/Chaput]
Catholic Herald UK ^ | September 10, 2012 | Matthew Gambino

Posted on 09/10/2012 7:59:13 AM PDT by Alex Murphy

St Joseph’s University will buy the Archbishop of Philadelphia’s residence for $10 million (£6 million), the university announced last week.

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia signed a letter of intent with St Joseph’s to acquire the 8.9-acre property and its three-storey, 23,350-square-foot mansion that has been the home of Philadelphia’s Catholic archbishops since 1935.

The property sits across Cardinal Avenue from the university’s campus along City Avenue.

“Acquiring this adjacent property presents an opportunity that will be integral to the university’s long-term strategic planning,” said St Joseph’s president, Fr Kevin Gillespie. “As we look to the future, this opens exciting possibilities for the university community, and it will further enhance our students’ experience for decades to come.”

Fr Gillespie said the university had no immediate plans for development on the property and will evaluate its possible short-term use for administrative offices.

St Joseph’s officials expect to sign the agreement of sale within the next several weeks.

Archbishop Charles Chaput, the most recent Philadelphia archbishop to reside in the home after Cardinals Justin Rigali, Anthony Bevilacqua, John Krol, Gerald O’Hara and Dennis Dougherty, will now live at St Charles Borromeo Seminary, located 5.3 miles south.

According to archdiocesan records, the home was purchased in 1935 by Cardinal Dougherty for $117,500.

The house’s granite walls and slate roofs were similar in style to nearby St. Charles Seminary, according to a 1982 Pennsylvania historical report. That may have been an appealing feature for Cardinal Dougherty, who was proud of the massive archdiocesan college seminary building whose completion he had overseen in 1928.

When purchased, the property included an outdoor swimming pool that was never used thereafter and that today remains a concrete ruin behind the home.

The residence, the 1982 report reads, “marks the social arrival of the Catholic Church, and is in the centre of a major group of Catholic institutions including convents, the seminary and St Joseph’s University”.


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Original headline in the UK:
Archbishop’s residence sold for £6m

St Joseph’s University will buy the Archbishop of Philadelphia’s residence for $10 million (£6 million), the university announced last week. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia signed a letter of intent with St Joseph’s to acquire the 8.9-acre property and its three-storey, 23,350-square-foot mansion that has been the home of Philadelphia’s Catholic archbishops since 1935....

....Fr Gillespie said the university had no immediate plans for development on the property and will evaluate its possible short-term use for administrative offices....According to archdiocesan records, the home was purchased in 1935 by Cardinal Dougherty for $117,500.

1 posted on 09/10/2012 7:59:14 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy

Archbishop Chaput walks the walk. We must keep him in our prayers. He has a huge mess to clean up in Philly.


2 posted on 09/10/2012 8:04:06 AM PDT by SumProVita
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To: Alex Murphy
long-term strategic planning,

Archdiocest gets $10 million and University gets tear-down -quality property worth ... ?????

3 posted on 09/10/2012 8:10:23 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: Alex Murphy
RCIA ...

FYI.

4 posted on 09/10/2012 8:14:41 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Alex Murphy

Boston sold the Archbishop’s mansion and part of his estate too for some tens of millions of dollars.

Being an archbishop means living well, very well indeed.


5 posted on 09/10/2012 8:45:25 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: SumProVita
Archbishop Chaput walks the walk.

Is this the walk? He can keep walking...

CHAPUT ON HEALTH CARE:
"....This is why the Church always seeks to work cooperatively with people of other faiths and no faith to secure the basic elements of human dignity for all our citizens—decent housing, a living wage, justice under the law and adequate food and health care...."
-- Archbishop Chaput, from the thread Begging Caesar to render welfare unto us: a conversation with Archbishop Chaput
"Health-care reform is vital. That’s why America’s bishops have supported it so vigorously for decades. They still do. But fast-tracking a flawed, complex effort this fall, in the face of so many growing and serious concerns, is bad policy. It’s not only imprudent; it’s also dangerous."
-- Archbishop Chaput, from the thread Health care and the common good
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver also issued a call to action urging Catholics to tell legislators that only a bill that excludes abortion is acceptable health care reform.
-- from the thread Cardinal Rigali, Abp. Chaput Intensify Warnings Against Obamacare's Abortion Expansion
CHAPUT ON IMMIGRATION:
"....in recent years, state-level efforts have been made across the country to bar undocumented young adults from the benefits of in-state tuition breaks for higher education. This is bad public policy for several reasons....SB 170, if enacted, will require that any individual receiving in- state tuition must have attended a Colorado public or private high school for three years....students who meet these significant and verifiable standards, and qualify for in-state tuition, will not be required to verify lawful presence in the United States."
-- Archbishop Chaput, from the thread Denver Archbishop Supports Tuition Equity [Chaput favors extending in-state tuition to illegals]
“Illegal immigration is wrong and dangerous for everyone involved,” he asserted. There is nothing good about people risking their lives to enter the U.S., and there is nothing good about Americans not knowing who crosses their borders, “especially in an age of terrorism, drugs and organized violent crime”. There is also nothing good about people “living in the shadows,” or families being separated, or “decent people being deported and having to start their lives all over again, sometimes in a country that they no longer -- or never did -- know.” Although flawed, Archbishop Chaput continued, the Arizona law unintentionally accomplishes the good of bringing immigration reform and its human issues to the forefront of the national discussion....“Our current immigration system is now obviously broken. Congress needs to act.”
-- Archbishop Chaput, from the thread Arizona immigration law shows need for reform, Archbishop Chaput writes
CHAPUT ON DEMOCRATS:
"....Partly because I'm a bishop and partly because I'm older and a little bit wiser, I don't belong to any political party. As a young priest I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign. Later I volunteered with the 1976 and 1980 campaigns for Jimmy Carter. So if I have any partisan roots, they're in the Democratic Party. But as I say in the book, one of the lessons we need to learn from the last 50 years is that a "preferred" Catholic political party usually doesn't exist...."
-- Archbishop Chaput, from the thread Denver Prelate on the Catholic Political Vocation - "Tolerance Is Not a Christian Virtue"
Sadly, Archbishop Chaput has indicated that it is the responsibility of the communicant to stay away from the Communion Rail. This is not correct. Rather, it is the responsibility of the Minister of the Eucharist to deny Holy Communion. This is a huge difference that goes against the Church's teachings regarding canon 915 as well as recent statements from the Vatican stating that the manifest pro-abortion politicians must be denied, and the burden IS upon the Minister to deny, NOT upon the communicant to stay away.
-- from the thread Will Denver Catholic Archbishop finally enforce Canon 915?
Speaking for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver has stated that a religious coalition, which recently petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to clamp down on "hate speech" by conservative talk-show hosts, has misrepresented the U.S. bishops' involvement in their initiative.
-- from the thread USCCB Denies Involvement in FCC Campaign against Conservative Talk-Show Hosts

6 posted on 09/10/2012 10:23:59 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (At the end of the day, you have to worship the god who can set you on fire.)
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To: Alex Murphy; SumProVita
CHAPUT ON HEALTH CARE:
"...The whole meaning of “health care” would be subverted by any plan that involves mandated abortion access or abortion funding.  The reason is obvious.  Killing or funding the killing of unborn children has nothing to do with promoting human health, and including these things in any “health care” proposal, no matter how shrewdly hidden, would simply be a form of lying. ...."
-- Archbishop Chaput, from the article Act now to ensure health care reform respects sanctity of life
"fast-tracking a flawed, complex effort this fall, in the face of so many growing and serious concerns, is bad policy. It’s not only imprudent; it’s also dangerous. As Sioux City’s Bishop R. Walker Nickless wrote last week, “no health-care reform is better than the wrong sort of health-care reform.”... ", from the thread Health care and the common good
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver also issued a call to action urging Catholics to tell legislators that only a bill that excludes abortion is acceptable health care reform.
-- from the thread Cardinal Rigali, Abp. Chaput Intensify Warnings Against Obamacare's Abortion Expansion
CHAPUT ON DEMOCRATS:
"....On the question of homicide against the unborn child -- and let's remember that the great Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer explicitly called abortion 'murder' -- the Democratic platform that emerged from Denver in August 2008 is clearly anti-life."

Party loyalty for the sake of habit, or family tradition, or ethnic or class interest is a form of tribalism. It's a lethal kind of moral laziness. Issues matter. Character matters. Acting on principle matters. But party loyalty for the sake of party loyalty is a dead end.....

I added that, "To suggest -- as some Catholics do -- that Senator Obama is this year's 'real' pro-life candidate requires a peculiar kind of self-hypnosis, or moral confusion, or worse. To portray the 2008 Democratic Party presidential ticket as the preferred 'pro-life' option is to subvert what the word 'pro-life' means."..."

-- Archbishop Chaput, from the thread Denver Prelate on the Catholic Political Vocation - "Tolerance Is Not a Christian Virtue"

7 posted on 09/10/2012 11:13:16 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos; Alex Murphy

Thank you, Cronos, for providing authentic context. :-)


9 posted on 09/10/2012 1:06:26 PM PDT by SumProVita
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To: ArrogantBustard
RCIA ... FYI.

What does a Roman Catholic need to do to join the Orthodox Presbyterian Church?

10 posted on 09/10/2012 2:37:43 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (At the end of the day, you have to worship the god who can set you on fire.)
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To: Alex Murphy

Your concern is greatly appreciated ... but I have no particular interest in the “Orthodox” Presbyterian “Church”.


11 posted on 09/10/2012 2:40:52 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: SumProVita; Alex Murphy

It’s very funny when posters excerpt everything out and do whatever they can to tell other freepers “you are xxyx, you should be voting Democrat, go away” — it’s almost like a DU agenda...


12 posted on 09/10/2012 10:21:18 PM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Alex Murphy; ArrogantBustard
From the thread Vote clears path for gay ministers in local Presbyterian churches
The ex-ruling elder of the OrthodoxPresbyerianCurch, Paul M Elliott also points out that

This Trinity Foundation website says "Last year The Trinity Foundation published Paul Elliott’s book, Christianity and Neo-Liberalism: The Spiritual Crisis in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Beyond. That book examines in detail the false doctrine of salvation now being taught in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

The above website says

Thus, the Report continues the conspiracy of silence that has prevailed in the OPC for three decades. It leaves the erroneous impression that the serious doctrinal problems are outside the denomination, not within it. The Report gives false comfort to those who think the OPC is still a bastion of Biblical orthodoxy. On the contrary, the Report, and the 2006 General Assembly’s commendation of it, both maintain the OPC as a safe haven for those who teach error

.....

Men within the OPC, including at least one member of the Committee itself, teach heresy regarding the Gospel and many other fundamentals of the faith.
you can read the details at the link on page 109

2009 membership 2010 membership Lost Gained
PCUSA 2,934,952 2,844,952 90,000
PCA 335,000 340,000 5,500
OPC 21,123 21,530 407
Disappearing Presbyerians 84,100

From 2011 Church Membership: Southern Baptists Decline; Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons Increase

And PCA statistics provide a blurry snapshot

Or, from the thread Ethiopians to hold large seders in Israel we reject the anti-semitic stance of the OrthodoPresbyterian C (OPC) which tells its members to " not celebrate the Seder or other Jewish festivals. " --> These people, the OPC are not Christian and we reject their anti-Jewish and anti-Christian beliefs

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No Christian would leave Catholicism, Orthodoxy or Lutheranism or Baptists or Methodists or Pentecostals to join this dying group that has non-Christian attitudes and teachings

13 posted on 09/10/2012 10:28:48 PM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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