Archdiocese Sells Land, Mansion To College

[maddezmom]

BOSTON -- In a multimillion dollar deal, Boston College will purchase 43 acres of adjoining land from the Boston Archdiocese and the archbishop's ornate mansion, church officials announced Tuesday.

Proceeds from the $99.4 million sale will be used to pay off the roughly $90 million in loans taken out by the archdiocese to settle cases with 550 victims of clergy sex abuse.

"I am pleased that we were able to come to an agreement in this mater so quickly. It was very important for us as an archdiocese to clearly show how the funds for the legal settlements were raised. No money from any future sales of any parish properties or assets will be used to this end," Archbishop Sean O'Malley said.

The college also agreed to purchase the church's Lake Street Tribunal property in two years for a purchase price of $8 million.

"While I am saddened that a large piece of our Brighton campus has to be sold, it is good that the offer by Boston College was the one that we accepted at the end of the sale process, especially since we've been able to keep the property within the Catholic family," O'Malley said.
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more:http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/3022765/detail.html

Looks like BC bailed out the family. :eyes:

[MaineDem]

1. Yeah, the Jesuits

Who had their own problem with pedaphile priests and paid off many lawsuits.

I can't begin to tell you how this whole situation infuriates me.

[PaDUer]

3. Only the jesuits? n/t

[MaineDem]

4. They're the ones running BC

Certainly not the only ones but they're the ones who bought the property from the archdiocese and are, therefore, germane to this story.

[HereSince1628]

2. "Big Religion" isn't known as the "Big Lie" for nothing.

That isn't a comment on any individual's beliefs but rather on human frailties. With power and authority comes those who seek it and exploit it; sometimes for not such good ends...

I doubt that the circumstance of the Catholic Church and its clergy is unique. I am aware of a Unitarian/Universalist Choir Director in a moderately large midwestern city who used his (30 year) position within the congregation to sucessfully gain "access" to dozens of recently divorced or "unhappily married" women. I am also aware of a once ordained Presbyterian minister (a different person and now defrocked)who was a college religion professor who used his academic position with all its asymmetries of power and authority to prey upon women who transited his institutionally required course. I am also aware of a Lutheran minister working for a major Catholic hospital in Chicago who claims to have carried-on relationships with women he was "supervising/mentoring/advising" as they developed hours for state counseling/ psychology licenses and coursework in end-of-life ethics (a circumstance that ought to challenge anyone who can make a synapse.).

That children or otherwise vulnerable adults can be and are exploited by sexual predators is hardly unique to Catholic priests--perhaps their greater mistake is that they claim to adhere to higher standards than the rest of scoiety. The fact is people who claim moral authority exploit their school, work and work related social environments to fulfill their sexual desires are hardly uncommon.

--my comment: Lovers Beware!