Daily News | St. Peter Claver, Philadelphia’s mother church for Black Catholics, will close for good in January
it could be sold. Since then, it has remained mostly as a historical monument, awaiting its eventual sale.
“To be selling this historic church is disheartening, but it’s also indicative of what’s been going on with the Archdiocese here for a long time,” Butler said, referencing other sales that the Archdiocese has made in recent years to pay for pension obligations and thein payments to clergysexual abuse victims. Given St. Peter Claver’s prime Center City location, the property should fetch a high price.
Former parishioners and other members of Philly’s Black Catholic community have fought to save the church over the years, but have felt ground down by the Archdiocese’s insistence on a sale. “I think a lot of people [are] just tired of fighting,” Edmonds said. As part of a ruling in the Orphans’ Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas in 2017, the Archdiocese must designate a third of the proceeds from the sale to benefit the Black Catholic community. But even with legal backing, community members have a hard time believing that they will experience meaningful benefits from those proceeds.
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