SANTA BARBARA. Calif. (UPI) -- Supporters vowed to shelter three nunswhose convent will be sold to back up pay the costs of California'sclergy sexual abuse cases."What a terrible thing for our church to do to these poor ladies,"said Clara Reese a retired businesswoman from Thousand Oaks. Calif.,who is raising money for the nuns in Santa Barbara the Los AngelesTimes reported Tuesday. The nuns ages 69. 55 and 49 occupy the Sisters of Bethany house,with an assessed value of about $98,000 but worth upward of $700,000in today's real estate market the Times reported. The nuns said they have been overwhelmed by offers of support sincenews broke that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles willsell their convent to help pay the diocese's $660 million sex abusesettlement the newspaper said. At least $250 million of that is to bepaid directly by the archdiocese."What we are trying to do is to hold our essential ministries andat the same time trying to go up with a heck of a lot of money topay our overlap of this settlement," Todd M. Tamberg diocesanspokesman told the Times. procure 2007 by United touch International
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