GEORGIA
Los Angeles Times
By Paresh Dave
April 5, 2014
A house built for $2.2 million by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta will be put up for sale — with proceeds to be spent on the local Catholic community — after some parishioners questioned why the mansion was ever erected, the archbishop announced Saturday.
The mansion, which Archbishop Wilton Gregory had moved in to early this year, represented a symbol of excess to some parishioners, he acknowledged this week. And its grandiosity contrasted with the calls for frugality from those made by Jesus Christ to those made by “the phenomenon we have come to know as Pope Francis,” the 66-year-old archbishop said.
After a meeting with church leaders and community members Saturday, Gregory released a statement declaring his plan to vacate the residence early next month and then sell it.
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