Smart Aleck

The question Nov. 2: Developer Ira Yellin has an option to buy the historic St. Vibiana’s Cathedral downtown with possibilities to include restoration as an Immigration and Naturalization Service ceremonial reception center or demolition. Do you have a better idea?

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St. Vibiana’s Cathedral could be put to good use by removing the roof and installing luxury boxes, bleachers and turf grass. Change the name to St. Vibiana’s Stadium and use it as the home to L.A.’s new NFL expansion team called, what else, “The Cathedrals.”

G. Rockmael, Mar Vista

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I think that the cathedral could be converted into a museum to house a permanent collection of photographs and memorabilia of “Yesterday Los Angeles.” Present and future generations ought to have a place to see their city of the past.

Jose M. Cedeno, Los Angeles

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Demolish it and sell it to Starbucks.

Emmanuel Rustia, Chino Hills

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Los Angeles needs to save its few historic landmarks; restoration is a great solution.

Manny Sanchez, Hollywood

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The Catholic Church could donate St. Vibiana’s to the Catholic Workers to create a homeless shelter, soup kitchen and sacred monument.

Robert L. Kneeler III, Los Angeles

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Now that Cardinal [Roger M.] Mahony will have a new cathedral, he can turn St. Vibiana’s into a basilica and have both a cathedral and a basilica.

Lourdes M. Brent, Los Angeles

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I hear the relics of St. Vibiana calling for a monumental sarcophagus to inter bones exhumed from the new cathedral site.

Jim Colligan, Los Angeles

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The Princess Diana Foundation can buy St. Vibiana’s, turn it into a center serving the poor and name it after Mother Teresa and Princess Diana.

Marie Edmundson, Los Angeles