I saw this in the Wis State Journal
A large Downtown Madison Catholic church wants to convert a historic school building on its property into rental housing for college students, three years after a different housing proposal by the church hit snags and was abandoned.
The latest proposal by leaders of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 120 W. Johnson St., would turn the former Holy Redeemer School into apartments at an estimated cost of $4.2 million, according to Monsignor Kevin Holmes, Holy Redeemer's priest.
Some resistance to the idea already has surfaced among parishioners who want to keep the building for church use. It's unclear how widespread the opposition might be or whether it would jeopardize the project.
The parish is inviting comments to be submitted
through the Cathedral Parish website.
Personally I’m at peace with whatever is decided, and I really do have a
lot of confidence in the prudence of Monsignor Holmes and Bishop
Morlino. Apartments for Catholic students seem a truly good cause, and
part of the idea is that they’d pay for the needed renovations. But I am
also in solidarity with the Hispanic community for whom it’s a
sacrifice, and I could not help being sad at the loss of the beautiful
but very seldom-seen auditorium.
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VATICAN II PLUS TWO =
And where are the schools
The daily Mass
Lines to confess
A uniformed lass?
And where are the schools
The Latin class
Cassocked priest
Candles in brass?
And where are the schools
To strengthen souls
Shape their wills
Set the goals?
And where are the schools
The altar boy
Assisting priest
Like Christ their joy?
And where are the schools
Oh, time you lied
Two generations
Have gone and died.
And where are the schools
Which don’t derive
That two plus two
Are sometimes five?
S – S – P – X,
They’re found in large
Where struggling families
Let priest take charge
For the good of the whole
Priests’ lives are laid
So many may come
Not be afraid.
And win the Faith
From Christ-like hand…
St. Pie the Tenth
Two and two are grand!!
This is a great idea. I actually think that when the original plan for the St. Paul's chapel and student housing to be combined into one building was shot down that was a blessing in disguise. This current plan really is a win-win and it is wonderful that a historical building will continue on with its original mission in-tact, though probably not in a way the people who built it in the 1890s would have imagined.
Between the new St. Pauls chapel plans, this student housing bloc, and the new Cathedral (is there a ballpark estimate as to when construction will start on that?)there are signs of growth in the Madison diocese. Of course these proposed building projects, as impressive as they are, are simply a symptom of a solid Bishop, orthodox priests, growing numbers of seminarians, and faithful laity. I know some people like to use John Paul II's phrase, "new springtime" and B-XVI's ideas about continuity and "mutual enrichment" sarcastically but when I see what is going on in the diocese of Madison, those are the kind of words that come to mind. God bless Bishop Morlino.
I think it would be better if they made the basement and 1st and 2nd floors in apartments and left intact the really outstanding feature of the school building, the auditorium on the top floor. This can also benefit St Paul's, for instance it would be a far more proper facility for the Alpha Omega boisterous undergrad large group program, versus having it in the church.
I think it would be better if they made the basement and 1st and 2nd floors in apartments and left intact the really outstanding feature of the school building, the auditorium on the top floor. This can also benefit St Paul's, for instance it would be a far more proper facility for the Alpha Omega boisterous undergrad large group program, versus having it in the church.
top floor auditoriums are dangerous in the event of fire, that was why they stopped using it in the early 60s
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