Pop star Katy Perry recently won a prolonged court battle to purchase a California convent formerly owned by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ~

Deeded to religious sisters by a devout Catholic businessman, the empty convent sits on eight acres of hilltop in the Los Feliz neighborhood with an exquisite view of the city, and is valued at $14.5 million.
 
And now a judge has ruled that the property may be sold to singer Katy Perry, over the objections of several elderly sisters, who watched some of Perry’s videos and fought the Los Angeles archdiocese’s plan to sell her the property — going so far as to find an alternative purchaser and contest their own bishop in court. Those sisters have lost, and Perry will take possession of the property.

That’s the current news on this property. But the real history of the place is truly a tragic one. As this article from the Stream reports, a secular psychologist emptied out the massive convent long ago ~

This order wasn’t always a small band of elderly women. In fact, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) were among the largest and most successful teaching orders in America at the time of the Second Vatican Council (1960-64).
 
Their sudden collapse is a searing instance of how too many Catholics misread Vatican’s II message of renewal as a call to surrender to worldly, secular influences […]
 

Keen to follow Vatican II’s call for religious orders to “renew” themselves, the IHM nuns interpreted this call differently from how the well-meaning bishops had intended it. In 1966, the order contracted with secular psychologist Carl Rogers to work with him and his teams of facilitators, engaging the sisters in the touchy-feely, “humanistic” therapy sessions which Rogers offered — the key to which was “values clarification,” whereby sisters would be encouraged to look within their emotions, instead of the doctrinal tenets which they had learned, for answers to ethical questions.

Yes, it’s the now-familiar, socially-destructive, leftist mantra; rely on your own feelings. Forget God, scripture and your vows.

The IHMs had some 60 schools when we started; at the end, they had one. There were some 615 nuns when we began. Within a year after our first interventions, 300 of them were petitioning Rome to get out of their vows. They did not want to be under anyone’s authority, except the authority of their imperial inner selves. …
 
There’s a tragic book called Lesbian Nuns, Breaking Silence, which documents part of our effect on the IHMs and other orders that engaged in similar experiments in what we called “sensitivity” or “encounter” …

Source: Latin Mass Magazine

Read the whole article HERE. It’s not long, just very, very sad.

 
Like so many gullible Americans during the “sexual revolution” of the 60’s – Make Love Not War Baby! – – the IHM sisters were caught up in the soul-sucking vortex of self-worshiping secularism.
 

And now, the thought of Katy Perry occupying what had for decades been a sacred setting, is more than a little disconcerting.
 
Perry isn’t exactly known for her pious, conservative nature. Among the singer-celebrity’s more controversial performances – controversial at least to Christians – were the 2014 Grammy Awards and the 2015 Superbowl half-time show. For the Grammy’s she performed her song “Dark Horse” which featured Illuminati references and satanic symbolism.

An eye-opening video at Online Fellowship includes footage from various Perry performances. (Saying she’s sold her soul to the devil isn’t just Christian hyperbole!)
 
 
After watching her antics and the dark, suggestive imagery in her videos I shudder to imagine what sort of unholy plans Perry has for that unfortunate convent – though self-serving secularism no doubt drove the Holy Spirit away years ago.
 

The tragic and precipitous decline of the IHM order is a cautionary tale ~

A similar pattern of compromise, surrender and collapse is, sadly, the story of most “mainline” Protestant churches, as well. (The IHM sisters’) fate should be an object lesson in the dangers of watering down Christian doctrine in order to soften the “scandal” of faith in a secular age.