California IN BRIEF : OAKLAND : Catholics to Raze Damaged Churches
From Times staff and Wire reports
Roman Catholic church leaders announced the “sad decision” to tear down two 19th-Century churches damaged in the 7.1 Loma Prieta earthquake nearly a year ago. Bishop John S. Cummins of the Catholic Diocese of Oakland told a news conference that St. Francis de Sales Cathedral and Sacred Heart Church will be razed. He said the church cannot afford the $8 million it would cost to fix them. St. Francis, near downtown, was built in 1893. Sacred Heart, in north Oakland, was built in 1897.
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