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Article: Jesuits say they'll close Boston urban center [Corrected 04/17/07] South End church faces financial woes
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2007
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The Jesuit Urban Center, a predominantly gay Catholic congregation
in Boston's South End, will close at the end of July, and the
landmark church in which services are held will be put up for sale,
the Jesuit religious order announced yesterday.
The Rev. Thomas J. Regan, the superior of the New England Jesuits,
said in an interview that the rationale for the closing is purely
financial. He said that the order, long associated with education,
has become financially reliant on the salaries paid to priests who
teach at Boston College, the College of the Holy Cross, and Fairfield
University - all Jesuit schools - but that as many of those priests
retire or die, the order is being forced to cut ...