Church Properties Workshop

(2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This workshop will study the real estate impacts of large-scale parish mergers and church closures in the Catholic Church in the United States. The class will be structured around readings, seminar discussions, and applied projects. Students will conduct original research into diocesan restructuring exercises currently taking place and will contribute to the Diocesan Mapping Project (DioMap), a collaboration between the Church Properties Initiative and the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society mapping the historical development of Catholic dioceses in the United States.