Now comes a California law suit involving 2 nuns, an archbishop, a pop-singer, and a land-developer ...
which it will be decided by a judge whose last name is O’Brien.
Who do you think is going to win this ?
Or... when it comes to a battles with nuns, where has
Archbishop Jose Gomez been for the past couple of years ?
2 Nuns, a Developer and Katy Perry Walk Into a Real Estate Deal
NY Times - MICHAEL CIEPLY - JULY 2, 2015
Quote:
LOS ANGELES — God moves in mysterious ways — particularly when it comes to Los Angeles real estate.
And few transactions have proved more mystifying of late than conflicting attempts
by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a group of nuns under its supervision
to sell an eight-acre hillside estate here.
The property might go to the pop singer Katy Perry.
Or it could fall to the restaurateur and developer Dana Hollister,
depending on whether the sacred matchup or a more profane alignment
of lawyers and would-be buyers prevails.<snip>
Some on both sides have been shocked by the highly public nature of the fight,
which has spilled into court and onto television screens.
It pits the local archbishop, José Gomez, against a pair of nuns,
Sister Rita Callanan, 77, and Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, 86
—both appeared on NBC’s “Today” show this week —
who are among five remaining members of a Los Angeles order,
the Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
“I would have thought everyone would sit down and it would be settled in five minutes,”
said J. Michael Hennigan, a lawyer for the archdiocese.
Instead, Mr. Hennigan and his various opponents are getting ready
for a hearing on July 30in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Judge Robert O’Brien has been asked to issue an injunction blocking
the nuns’ proposed sale of the villa, where their motherhouse and novitiate
had been based since 1970, to Ms. Hollister, which would clear the way for a sale, instead, to Ms. Perry.
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