 | Catholic Church in Brussels rents apartments to poor families 02-04-2008 The Catholic Church in Brussels has been found to rent empty church buildings
to poor families on a regular basis. About thirty buildings in the city now
serve as homes for families.
The religious communities remain the owners of the rented buildings. Through
social housing corporations, they let out beguinages, rectories and unused
community rooms. Churches however are not rented. "In Brussels every church is
needed", the head of cardinals of Laken, Herman Cosijns, says. "We have a lot of
communities and an equal amount of churches in Brussels. These are all vital,
because there are more than fourty foreign communities in the city which all
need to be able to attend services in their own languages. In that sense
Brussels does not have too many churchces."
In 2006, cardinal Godfried Danneels called upon the Catholic Church to offer
empty church buildings to families that do not have a roof over their heads.
Source:
Brussel
Nieuws
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