Grand Séminaire to move from Sherbrooke St.
The Grand Séminaire, which has trained more than 8,500 priests in its time on Sherbrooke Street, is going to move to Petite-Patrie, where the 16 postulants now studying will train. Imagine moving from that magnificent site to this frankly tacky little box on Bélanger.
But this article says nothing at all about what will happen with the massive site that includes the two towers. But I hear people muttering “condos – what else?”
John B 10:05 on 2020-07-01 Permalink
The Radio-Canada article says that the archdiocese has created a new corporation, “Corporation du Grand Séminaire de l’Archidiocèse de Montréal” – which it controls – to manage the site, so maybe there’s a bit of hope it’ll be something public-ish. OTOH the new corporation could be just to shop it around to the highest bidder. It’s not like the church is growing and needs the space.
walkerp 11:06 on 2020-07-01 Permalink
Assume the archdiocese will choose the most venal path possible in this situation.
Ian 13:51 on 2020-07-01 Permalink
It would be nice if the CSDM could buy it, they are suffering a pretty bad space deficit…
Chris 13:44 on 2020-07-02 Permalink
And after turning to into a school it should of course be renamed, since the Catholic Church has a history of misogyny, homophobia, racism, anti-semitism, slavery, patriarchy, etc. To this day, their holy book does not condemn slavery!
Jaddle 12:43 on 2020-07-06 Permalink
Maybe FACE could move there during its upcoming renovations….