Church buys five-bedroom, $2.3m Silicon Valley home for retiring bishop
- Catholic diocese of San Jose’s mission is to serve the poor
- Bishop Patrick McGrath: ‘It’s a good investment’
The Catholic diocese of San Jose has purchased a five-bedroom, $2.3m home in Silicon Valley for its retiring bishop despite the 640,000-member diocese’s mission of charity and serving the poor.
Bishop Patrick J McGrath, 73, acknowledged in an interview with the Mercury News of San Jose that the price tag is “a lot of money”, saying “I could understand” it might not sit well with some parishioners.
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