"In addition to storing sacred items like altars and incense censers, which according to canon law are permitted to be only in places of worship, the warehouse is a repository of secular artifacts like stained-glass windows.
Such objects “could still have other value, such as artistic or historical,” or simply monetary, said Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the archdiocese. These artifacts “help tell the story of the history of a church that is important to people who, back when the church was being built, contributed either monetarily or through their labor,” he said. “So we wanted to honor that contribution.”
Commentary: Nothing honors the contribution of spiritual ancestors who contributed to a parish like locking the church and engaging appraisers to remove treasured contents from their historical context.
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