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The Catholic Diocese of Honolulu paid $5.8 million for the 1898 Model Progress Building near its cathedral basilica, planning a reliquary chapel, a meeting space and outreach to the poor while commercial tenants remain for now.
A bankruptcy court approved the Catholic Diocese of Vermont’s $1 million sale of the former Loretto Home in Rutland to Cornerstone Housing Partners, a nonprofit planning affordable apartments.
The Diocese of Hasselt will repurpose four churches in Maasmechelen, Belgium, starting with Meeswijk, citing falling attendance, fewer priests and rising maintenance costs, with new uses to be decided with residents over several years.
A Nashville judge approved a settlement requiring the sale of the former Central Church of Christ building, assessed at $11 million, with 80 per cent of proceeds going to the founder’s family estate after a court found a deed restriction was violated.
St Elizabeth Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, has broken ground on Greenway Village, 56 affordable rental homes in 14 buildings on land behind the church, with the diocese, Catholic Charities and the city.
Mozambique’s Archdiocese of Nampula says squatters have occupied a seminary, parish and monastery land, destroying walls and cashew trees, while a May 2025 court order to evict them goes unenforced.
Uganda’s Mbale Diocese is seeking to recover cathedral land occupied by a garage since the 1970s, with more than 25,000 mechanics to be relocated to a 50-acre site so it can build a Jubilee House.
The Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, which financed the sale of 20 closed churches to other congregations over 15 years, announced it would leave the mortgage business after finding the loans had not always been monitored carefully.
The Archdiocese of New York sold its Manhattan headquarters, the Cardinal Cooke Building at 1011 First Avenue, for a reported $100 million-plus to help pay for abuse claims, and planned to move to smaller offices beside St Patrick’s Cathedral.
The Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth listed Église Sainte-Marie in Church Point, Nova Scotia, a 1905 wooden church of 15,000 square feet, for $250,000, but repairs are estimated at $10 million and the province says it cannot buy it.
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