Reference Library
Church Documents
Instruction: The pastoral conversion of the Parish community in the service of the evangelising mission of the Church
Message of the Holy Father Francis to Participants at the Conference "Doesn't God Dwell Here Anymore? Decommissioning Places of Worship and Integrated Management of Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage
Guidelines: Decommissioning and Ecclesial Reuse of Churches
Pontifical Council for Culture. 2018. Guidelines: Decommissioning and Ecclesial Reuse of Churches. December 17, 2018. The Vatican. http://www.cultura.va/content/dam/cultura/docs/pdf/beniculturali/guidelines.pdf.
Procedural Guidelines for the Modification of Parishes and the Closure, Relegation and Alienation of Churches
Scholarship
“Churching NIMBYs: Creating Affordable Housing on Church Property"
Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North
McGreevy, John T. “A Catholic World in America.” In Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North, 10-25. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Lost Classroom, Lost Community
Brinig, Margaret F. and Nicole Stelle Garnett. “The Vanishing Urban Catholic School.” In Lost Classroom, Lost Community, 9-32. University of Chicago Press, 2014.
American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow: Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975
Osborne, Catherine R. “The Secular City.” In American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow: Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975, 161-178. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Retired, Rehabbed, Reborn: The Adaptive Reuse of America’s Derelict Religious Buildings and Schools
Saurwein, Adam N. and Robert A. Simons. “Financing the Adaptive Reuse of Religious Buildings and Schools.” In Retired, Rehabbed, Reborn: The Adaptive Reuse of America’s Derelict Religious Buildings and Schools. The Kent State University Press, 2016.
“Ecclesiastical Properties as Common Goods, A Challenge for The Cultural, Social and Economic Development of Local Communities"
Dimodugno, Davide. “Ecclesiastical Properties as Common Goods, A Challenge for The Cultural, Social and Economic Development of Local Communities.” 2024. Sens public.
Case Studies
“St. Austin Catholic Parish and School: Land Monetization and School Construction”
Johnson, Madeline. “St. Austin Catholic Parish and School: Land Monetization and School Construction.” Case Study. Church Properties Initiative, Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate, University of Notre Dame, 2022
“Mission of Mary Cooperative: Urban Agriculture and Community Development”
Popa, Tyler, and Madeline Johnson. “Mission of Mary Cooperative: Urban Agriculture and Community Development.” Case Study. Church Properties Initiative, Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate, University of Notre Dame, 2024.