Notre Dame Cathedral on fire!

[John Anthony]

The cost to rebuild is incredible but a religious piece of history is priceless.

[Jumper_Dad]

The cost to rebuild is incredible but a religious piece of history is priceless.

 

I agree, it's hard to put a price on a piece of history like this.

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

So the Catholic Church doesn't own it? That seems strange to me...but if France Nationalized all buildings I guess that's how it happened.

 

In 1905 France passed a law to remove all privledged status from the Catholic Church, which had previously been the official religion of France. When they passed this law, they seized all of the buildings of worship in the country as property of the state of France, while establishing a provision for the religious groups practicing religion in those buildings to continue to do so at no cost in those same buildings in perpetuity, given that they maintained all costs for the upkeep of the buildings and paid employees who worked there. So the Notre Dame Basilica itself is property of the French state, but is operated and maintained at the cost of the Archdiocese of Paris.

 

Two of the contractors working on the renovations when the church caught fire were covered by a French national builders insurance policy, but France is yet to establish whether or not the insurance will cover andy costs for rebuilding. The Archdiocese of Paris has some insurance policies covering certain parts of the cathedral, including much of the art and the religious relics, but it is entirely unclear what the Archdiocese' insurance covers since the building is not property of the Archdiocese.

 

This is going to be an insurance nightmare.

[Voice of Reason]

In 1905 France passed a law to remove all privledged status from the Catholic Church, which had previously been the official religion of France. When they passed this law, they seized all of the buildings of worship in the country as property of the state of France, while establishing a provision for the religious groups practicing religion in those buildings to continue to do so at no cost in those same buildings in perpetuity, given that they maintained all costs for the upkeep of the buildings and paid employees who worked there. So the Notre Dame Basilica itself is property of the French state, but is operated and maintained at the cost of the Archdiocese of Paris.

 

Two of the contractors working on the renovations when the church caught fire were covered by a French national builders insurance policy, but France is yet to establish whether or not the insurance will cover andy costs for rebuilding. The Archdiocese of Paris has some insurance policies covering certain parts of the cathedral, including much of the art and the religious relics, but it is entirely unclear what the Archdiocese' insurance covers since the building is not property of the Archdiocese.

 

This is going to be an insurance nightmare.

 

Congratulations to France. You seize the property, you own the repair.

[John Anthony]

Congratulations to France. You seize the property, you own the repair.

 

Donation basket coming to an aisle near you.

[Jumper_Dad]

Looks like a man walked into St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC tonight carrying 2 cans of gas, 2 bottles of lighter fluid and lighters. Ushers stopped him and alerted nearby Critical Response Team officers and he was arrested.

 

Any chance Paris was arson?

[John Anthony]

Looks like a man walked into St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC tonight carrying 2 cans of gas, 2 bottles of lighter fluid and lighters. Ushers stopped him and alerted nearby Critical Response Team officers and he was arrested.

 

Any chance Paris was arson?

 

Well, the officials in France were saying it wasn’t arson while it was still on fire.

[TheDeuce]

Looks like a man walked into St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC tonight carrying 2 cans of gas, 2 bottles of lighter fluid and lighters. Ushers stopped him and alerted nearby Critical Response Team officers and he was arrested.

 

Any chance Paris was arson?

 

There’s a chance I guess, but the idiot in New York just wanted to be “famous.”

[PepRock01]

So the Catholic Church doesn't own it? That seems strange to me...but if France Nationalized all buildings I guess that's how it happened.

 

A lot of that kind of thing happened during the revolution.

[ggclfan]

Well, the officials in France were saying it wasn’t arson while it was still on fire.

 

That made me very suspicious as well. How could you "know" it was not arson when the building is still on fire?