--- title: Two Nuns Want to Stop Katy Perry From Buying Their Convent description: The pop star wants to purchase an 8-acre property in Los Angeles, on which the nuns' convent happens to be sited canonical: https://time.com/3965379/katy-perry-los-angeles-convent/ author: Joanna Plucinska article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-21T04:47:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:20.790Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Two Nuns Want to Stop Katy Perry From Buying Their Convent og:description: "We feel we are being forced to violate our canonical vows," they say. og:url: https://time.com/3965379/katy-perry-los-angeles-convent/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4cc4c6ae57580ce/69885bb10a4a2282ca9c539a/469054428.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: World Premiere Screening Of "Katy Perry: The Prismatic World Tour" og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Two Nuns Want to Stop Katy Perry From Buying Their Convent twitter:description: "We feel we are being forced to violate our canonical vows," they say. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4cc4c6ae57580ce/69885bb10a4a2282ca9c539a/469054428.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Two Nuns Want to Stop Katy Perry From Buying Their Convent > Sponsored content. 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The pop star wants to purchase an 8-acre property in Los Angeles, on which the nuns’ convent happens to be sited. But the nuns, who are among five remaining members of an order known as the Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are having none of it. In [court documents released on Friday](http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/20/nuns-intensify-fight-over-sale-of-convent-to-katy-perry.html), they say the sale would go against their sacred vows. Perry has been competing with L.A. restaurateur and developer Dana Hollister for the property, which also includes a retreat house for priests, the New York _Times_ reports. Perry is offering a $10 million all-cash deal, with an additional $4.5 million to purchase a new retreat house for priests to replace the current one. Hollister is also willing to pay $10 million and an additional $5.5 million to buy out the lease on the priests’ house. The _Times_ says that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles favors the Perry deal and claims to have control over the property, while the nuns prefer the Hollister arrangement. “In selling to Katy Perry, we feel we are being forced to violate our canonical vows to the Catholic Church,” Sister Catherine Rose Holzman wrote to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in a May 22 letter. The letter, among others, was revealed in court documents the nuns filed on Friday, [CNBC](http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/20/nuns-intensify-fight-over-sale-of-convent-to-katy-perry.html) uncovered. The nuns said their objection to the sale to Perry had nothing to do with her risque performance style, the [_Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/us/katy-perry-allies-with-los-angeles-archdiocese-over-property-sale.html) reports. Instead, they reportedly favor the Hollister deal because it would keep the convent open to the public. It’ll likely be up to Judge Robert O’Brien of Superior Court in Los Angeles County to decide who the property ends up going to. A hearing has been scheduled for July 30, the _Times_ says. \[[_NYT_](http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/20/nuns-intensify-fight-over-sale-of-convent-to-katy-perry.html)\] Two Nuns Want to Stop Katy Perry From Buying Their Convent ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3965379/katy-perry-los-angeles-convent/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3965379/katy-perry-los-angeles-convent/"},"headline":"Two Nuns Want to Stop Katy Perry From Buying Their Convent","datePublished":"2015-07-21T04:47:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:20.790Z","description":"\"We feel we are being forced to violate our canonical vows\"","url":"https://time.com/3965379/katy-perry-los-angeles-convent/","keywords":["celebrities","Newsfeed","Katy Perry"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4cc4c6ae57580ce/69885bb10a4a2282ca9c539a/469054428.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joanna Plucinska","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joanna-plucinska/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4cc4c6ae57580ce/69885bb10a4a2282ca9c539a/469054428.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"World Premiere Screening Of \"Katy Perry: The Prismatic World Tour\"","caption":"World Premiere Screening Of \"Katy Perry: The Prismatic World Tour\"","creditText":"Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3965379/katy-perry-los-angeles-convent/","name":"Two Nuns Want to Stop Katy Perry From Buying Their Convent"}}]}] ```