Judge Stephanie Bowick has already heard both sides of a legal battle about who has the rights to sell the building in California, with The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary insisting that they have the right to sell the property, but the Los Angeles Archdiocese claim that the nuns’ sale is not authorised.
It is reported that the Sisters were set to sell the property for $15.5million but the Archdiocese claims its agreement to sell for $14.5million is legally binding, with the church claiming that the nuns did not get approval for the sale from Archbishop Jose Gomez.
This is all quite a big u-turn from last summer, when the nuns claimed that they were being “forced to violate their vows” by selling the convent to Katy.
In an email correspondence sent from Sister Catherine Rose Holzman to Archbishop Gomez she wrote: “In selling to Katy Perry, we feel we are being forced to violate our canonical vows to the Catholic Church.”
The Los Angeles Times say that the judge is expected to make a decision on the motion within the next sixty days.
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