APNewsBreak: Archbishop To Sell Atlanta Mansion

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by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 05, 2014 4:53 PM ET

SMYRNA, Ga. (AP) — Trying to appease angry parishioners, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Atlanta said Saturday that he will sell a $2.2 million mansion just three months after he moved in.

Archbishop Wilton Gregory announced the decision following a closed-door meeting with members of several church councils at his headquarters north of Atlanta. He publicly apologized Monday for building the Tudor-style residence and will move out in early May.

"I have decided to sell the Habersham property and invest the proceeds from that sale into the needs of the Catholic community," Gregory told The Associated Press after the meeting. He declined to take questions.

Gregory sold his previous home to Christ The King Cathedral, which plans to expand it and house its priests there. The archbishop said this week that if the church sold the new mansion, he would seek to live in a setting more modest than his current or previous home.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=299512505

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1. Maybe the Archbishop can bunk with the priests

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from Christ the King parish - to whom he just sold his former digs.
Heck, even build on a sort-of mother-in-law suite, if necessary.
Just wind it up, already.