Hallelujah! It’s miracle.
Finally, a proper use for a church.

The church wasn’t sold in one day. The town must have known that it was sold to a company. Or would they over there? Perhaps the Casino will be a success, and they can build the Catholic people in this town a new church that they can all fit into. That would create good will and better success for their company, too.

Legally, Churches in our jurisdiction are beyond the commerce of man. Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s. AMEN

At least at a casino you know what you face. In a church a lot of people think they are getting truth when, in fact, there is no verification whatever available for the bushwa they are getting.

Churches build hospitals, feed the hungry, provide shelter for the homeless, build schools and clinics and take little or no money from those to whom they minister. Casinos take the hard-earned paychecks that should be used to provide food and shelter for families so that the owners can live in luxury at the expense of others. And they create and nurture the greedy habit of gambling. I’ll pick a church over a casino for my neighbor any day.

“Churches build hospitals, feed the hungry, provide shelter for the homeless, build schools and clinics and take little or no money from those to whom they minister.”
They do build or buy or by one means or another take over hospitals. Then under at least some churches those hospitals don’t offer all the procedures the patients need. And they aren’t exactly cheap.
To the extent they feed the hungry and provide shelter for the homeless without proselytizing, it’s a good thing. Otherwise it’s an investment toward future revenues to the church.
They build schools and try to cherry pick students from the public schools and try to get money badly needed by the public schools and use their schools to ingrain their religion in young minds, and in some cases even teach nonsense instead of science. And unlike public schools, they aren’t held to standards.
And how can you call tithing little or no money?
Casinos, like churches, live on human weaknesses but when you go to a casino you know what you are getting into.
And casinos don’t ring bells at ungodly hours of the morning.

This is one more reason for all Americans to be ashamed and to hide our faces in the international community. It is almost a good thng that the dollar is so weak – we blunder around even less as a result. Examples like this prove once more the ignorance and arrogance of American business. Were they so foolish as to do no research on the history of the property? Is the government so callous and greedy that they thought no one would care? Is the Amercian catholic communtiy (both lower and upper case “c”) choosing to remain blind to this foolishness, and not exert any pressure on the corporation? Only a stupid scoundrel (as in stuppor, unconscious, or asleep) would think to put a casino in a church.
I am ashamed of this corporation, of the government that encourages this sort of thing, and of anyone who would frequent the place. Clearly no one in authority respects the people of the community, cares about history or tradition, or has any sense of what is appropriate. Sad, sad, sad.

The various Greek Orthodox dioceses have quite often used such buildings to build Churches; so why not the reverse? Currently the Ukrainian “Greek” Orthodox Church is in quite mess anyway. Competing Patriarchates have become a nightmare.

I once lived in a community where the one local porno theater (pre-internet and DVDs) rented one of its auditoriums to an evangelical congregation. It was likely more a business decision than an opportunity for reconciliation and redemption. But it was a great oxymoron.
No such luck here. The operative word is simply “moron”.