This item isn’t important but I couldn’t resist the headline.
The story does fit the general theme of institutions proudly going bankrupt to avoid contamination by horrible civilization and life and beauty. Sacrificing all to support chaos and riots and crime and war and ugliness. Good riddance, churches and Hollywood and journalism and libraries. Not sorry to see you go.
An Episcopal seminary in the NYC area has a beautiful Gothic campus known as ‘The Close’, meaning a sanctuary. Like most small colleges it’s nearly bankrupt, but after negotiation it found a way to keep its buildings by leasing part of them to the School of Sacred Music.
Problem: The School of Sacred Music is run by a nonprofit Catholic organization. One of the main donors to this organization is the head of First Things, a “conservative” Catholic publication. The bishops in charge of the Long Island diocese have objected to the lease because this donor is insufficiently Bergoglian for their exquisite taste.
The Close was close to closing on a lease, but now the Close will close because the Bergoglians closed off the possibility of closing the lease.
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