Now that poverty has been eradicated

[True Dough]

the church can finally afford a few luxuries for its most faithful. So refreshing, wouldn't you say?

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The Catholic Diocese of San Jose has purchased a five-bedroom, $2.3 million home in Silicon Valley for its retiring bishop despite the 640,000-member diocese’s mission of charity and serving the poor.

Bishop Patrick J. McGrath, 73, acknowledged in an interview with the Mercury News of San Jose that the price tag is “a lot of money,” saying “I could understand” it might not sit well with some parishioners.

The nearly 3,300-square-foot (306 square-meter) home’s listing boasts of a “grand-sized chef’s kitchen,” ?soaring ceilings” and “luxurious master ensuite” with a “spa-like marble bathroom” in a “Tuscan estate.”

It was purchased with funds set aside for paying the costs of a bishop’s housing and upkeep after retirement, said diocese communications director Liz Sullivan. She said the diocese was “following the policy set forth by the United States Council of Catholic Bishops” in purchasing the home.

https://www.apnews.com/871d1b9a322b45469d80bf359d4dcb91








More pics here:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/26/san-jose-diocese-buys-bishop-2-3-million-retirement-home/

[Lordquinton]

1. He could hold mass in his kitchen

This is great optics on the heels of the latest developments.

[Meadowoak]

2. Imagine what the property taxes run, or are they exempt, being a church and all?

[Angry Dragon]

3. nice to be poor

[lapfog_1]

4. To be fair, $2M usually only gets you a fixer upper in Silicon Valley

(sort of)

https://patch.com/california/menlopark-atherton/shack-1-million-silicon-valley-fixer-upper-hits-market



This place is legit on the market for $1M in Atherton

[3Hotdogs]

5. Retiring bishop, Essex County, N.J., retired to digs with an elevator.

See? Jesus provides.

Anybody dumb enough to still be giving money to these assholes?

[Pope George Ringo II]

6. Does anybody else think "Bishop Retirement Homes" would make an awesome HGTV series?

Or is that just me?

[True Dough]

7. Do you think the director of the program

would make the bishops remove their tall, pointy hats? Those hats would tend to ruin a lot of shots by obscuring the background.

[trotsky]

8. Keep in mind, this is the same institution that says it can't afford to pay restitution...

to the children who were raped by its priests.

[Mariana]

9. "He can understand it might not sit well with some parishioners."

So, he knows perfectly well what he's doing is wrong. But he'll do it anyway, because he knows from experience that the faithful may grumble a bit, but in the end they'll rationalize it and excuse it, and they'll keep on filling the collection plates.

[True Dough]

10. Bingo!

You're all so reliable, my bleating flock of sheep!