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Quote from: Matto (Apr 6, 2013, 4:20 pm)

Nice Churches are expensive though. I live two blocks from a pretty nice Novus Ordo Church. They are raising money to fix the roof [....]

I found out that the amount over one million dollars is not just for the roof to be fixed, but also for some other improvements as well.

Only "one million dollars"?  They obviously just weren't thinking big enough.

My region's Novus Ordo cathedral, a largish basilica-style church in some combination of concrete & stucco, is only 61 years old, having been completed on Jan. 20, 1952.  Its bishop: Thomas "Stained Glass" Wenski, was able to leverage persistent 21st-century leaks in its tile roof, into a ten million dollar renovation.  He brazenly began the fund-raising campaign as the Florida real-estate market, on which Florida's economy is heavily dependent, and in which many short-sighted people eagerly "invested" (it's Florida!--how could you possibly lose?), began to show convincing signs of screeching to a halt--that being a prelude to its later crumbling.

"This renovation wasn't undertaken because God needed it, but because God's people needed it", Wenski claimed during its rededication on (Sat.) Nov. 20, 2010.  Never mind that what many of "God's people" in Florida really needed financially, especially many senior citizens, is restoration of the money they lost from their failed "risk-free" real-estate "investments" (quite a few of them having been victimized by outright fraud).