Serendipity 7,821 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Beyond the gated, hilltop entrance of 3431 Waverly Drive -- a lush eight-acre estate in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles -- sits a former convent, where today Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, 86, has come to meet with Billboard. With her thin, white hair pressed back into a cornette, she glances around the parlor, bare except for a rare Aeolian organ previously used for grand church functions. For 40 years, this was home to the California Institute of the Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Now, none of the orderâs remaining five nuns live here.Four years ago, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles kicked the sisters out of the convent.High-end real-estate feuds are as commonplace in Los Angeles as cloudless skies. But in the past months, this one has become national news. Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez is fighting with five elderly IHM sisters over the sale of the convent -- a French-style chateau with Mediterranean flourishes, more than 30,000 square feet of living space and an adjoining prayer house. Gomez wants to sell the villa to 30-year-old global superstar Katy Perry, who has offered $14.5 million for the property. But the nuns, who control the deed, want to sell to local restaurateur Dana Hollister, 54.But the feud isnât just about a preference over buyer -- itâs a matter of trust. The nuns say that during the last two decades, their treatment by the archdiocese has devolved into a troubling pattern of neglect and broken promises, including the unsettling reality that the Waverly Drive property was used to harbor accused pedophiliac priests.Since the archdiocese brokered Perryâs offer to pay $14.5 million ($10 million in cash) without the nunsâ involvement, the sisters fear they wonât see a penny from the sale. Meanwhile, Hollisterâs offer for $15.5 million (with only $100,000 in cash) was made directly to their order.The squabble escalated on June 11, when Perry visited Waverly Drive with a group that included the archbishopâs construction coordinator. But two security guards hired by Hollister blocked their path. According to an eyewitness, Perryâs group refused to leave, so the Los Angeles Police Department was notified. Perry was gone when two officers showed up, asking the remaining group to vacate. A day later, Archbishop Gomez filed a temporary restraining order against Hollister, the first in a complicated series of legal filings that will likely take years to resolve. (Perry declined to comment for this story, but her management supplied Billboard with the statement: âIt is not appropriate for Katy to respond while this is being adjudicated in its proper forum, which is a court of law.â)Beyond the legal battle, the transaction has turned into a conflict with religious overtones. In this schism between a local Roman Catholic hierarchy and a nearly extinct religious order, Perry, the daughter of evangelical Christian ministers, has been cast by the nuns (unfairly or not) as a secular agent in a war on the sacred.For the nuns, this isnât an issue of civil law, but divine law. âKaty Perry represents everything we donât believe in,â says Holzman. âIt would be a sin to sell to her.ââA property with this much acreage is so rare,â says Josh Altman, real-estate-agent star of Bravoâs Million Dollar Listing. âIf this was in Beverly Hills, it would be worth north of $50 million. One day this will easily be a $35 million-plus estate.âHolzman had never heard of Perry until April, when Archbishop Gomez informed the five IHM sisters the pop star was buying their former home. This announcement came seven months after the archdiocese told the nuns it was asking $7 million for the estate, news that distressed the sisters. For one, $7 million seemed insultingly low -- they had been told years before the estate was worth at least three times that amount. (As it happens, any church--property transaction of more than $7.5 million in an archdiocese with more than 500,000 people requires final approval from the Vatican.)Then Holzman researched Perry online and found a video interview in which the former gospel singer joked that she had found success as a secular artist because âI sold my soul to the devil.â ( ) This was alarming. âEven mentioning that she would sell her soul to Satan is against our principles and beliefs,â Holzman says now. In an email to then-Rev. Monsignor Joseph V. Brennan, she wrote, âIn selling to Katy Perry, we feel we are being forced to violate our canonical vows to the Catholic Church.âOn May 26, at the archbishopâs urging, the five nuns met with Perry at nearby convalescent home Nazareth House, where two IHM sisters lived. As Holzman recalls, the pop star arrived late. Holzman mentioned the âdevilâ video sheâd seen online. Perry said her comment was just for entertainment and showed them her left-wrist tattoo: the word âJesus,â inked when she was 18.At the request of Dunne, who sang along, Perry belted out the gospel song âOh Happy Day,â reading the lyrics off her iPhone. She planned to turn the estate into a private residence for her family and employees, she told the women. She wanted to sip green tea and meditate in the gardens. âShe was nice,â says Holzman. âShe told us why she wanted the property and then sang a song and left.âSo who actually owns the Waverly Drive convent? That question dates back more than two decades. The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary were always fiscally independent of the archdiocese, collecting money through private donations, investments, fees from renting their home for events and -film shoots. In 1992, there were only 35 Immaculate Heart of Mary sisters left, with a median age of 69. Citing their infirmity as a grave concern, then-Archbishop Roger Mahony wrote to the Vatican with a proposal: The archdiocese would assume financial support for the order, provided the convent could not be sold or transferred without his officeâs written permission. The Vatican approved this request, an act that would ultimately cause legal confusion over who controlled the estateâs sale. Unbeknownst to the sisters, the archdiocese was also using the premises at its discretion. Archbishop Mahony, later at the center of the Los Angeles-area church s-x-abuse scandal, quietly began sheltering priests accused of molestation on the grounds.In 2007, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles reportedly reached a $660 million settlement with more than 500 alleged clergy-abuse victims and still owes hundreds of millions in damages and legal fees. Holzman believes the archdiocese wants the cash from the conventâs sale for this reason. âThatâs why they want to sell to Katy Perry. They want the money for you know what,â she says, unwilling to mention the s-x-abuse scandal by name. âWe wonât see a dime of it.ââThe care and well-being of all five sisters has always been our primary concern,â contends the archdiocese in a statement to Billboard. â[We] will continue to protect the sisters and ensure that future transactions will provide immediate funding for their care.âHolzman finds this difficult to believe. âThey havenât helped us with money ever. Why would they start now?âHollister intends to convert the convent into a boutique hotel. Hollister had her eye on the Waverly convent for years. She heard it was on the market, emailed the property manager and proposed a deal directly to the sisters. When Archbishop Gomez broke the news about Perry, the sisters quickly accepted Hollisterâs $15.5 million offer without even meeting her and turned the deed over immediately.The archdiocese claims in a statement, âThe sisters have been taken advantage of by the Hollister transaction.â Thatâs the line Perry has taken as well, suing the entrepreneur for interfering with her contractual rights to the sale. In documents filed in September, the performerâs team categorized Hollister as someone who âtook advantage of vulnerable, elderly nuns, who she malevolently convinced to oppose the Roman Catholic Church.âHollister, who says she has never spoken to Perry, thinks this has all gotten out of control. âItâs interesting she has all this girl power and sheâs running over a woman and five nuns.â She continues, âWe are going to Rome. We are not quitting now. We are just getting warmed up.âHolzman, meanwhile, vows to continue the fight. âI owe it to every sister up in Heaven looking down on me.â    Rest of the article   What are these nuns made of? This feud has been going on since February See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunny 12,170 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Interesting *hint* Â I like dancin', and ponies.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yASSsss 35,510 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 didn't read the article but whatever it is- yass,drag ha  Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobster 14,604 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Â WHAT ARE THOOOOSE?! But I'm only a man and I do what I can. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XGirlfriend 950 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 i want a summarized version of this cause   Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
froot 659 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 slay nunscant wait for #bishopdreams feel the fever Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnabesk 1,230 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 WHAT ARE THOOOOSE?!These shoes are a hint#GagaInDisguise Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
froot 659 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 i want a summarized version of this cause   basically all the nuns hate katy cause she is a sin feel the fever Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobster 14,604 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 â She continues, âWe are going to Rome. We are not quitting now. We are just getting warmed up.âThey bout to release a diss track But I'm only a man and I do what I can. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didymus 32,702 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Hollister's the one they're dragging though, not Katy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted October 22, 2015 Author Share Posted October 22, 2015 i want a summarized version of this cause   Katy wants to buy the house but they didn't want to give it to her and sold it to somebody else without Katy's consent, so Katy SUED them See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMROD 96,171 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Fight on, Nuns! Don't let Satan win!! (ïŸâăźâ)ïŸâ§*:ïœ„ïŸ be delulu until it becomes trululu (*ÂŽèžïœ*) âĄâĄâĄ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix 17,395 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 #nunpower đ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riot Poof 2,236 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Looks like these sisters are having I'm not a woman. I'm not a man. I am something that you'll never understand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XGirlfriend 950 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Katy wants to buy the house but they didn't want to give it to her and sold it to somebody else without Katy's consent, so Katy SUED them What a mess Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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