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The Washington Post

After 89 years on Earth, Sister Catherine Rose Holzman looked into a camera on Friday and addressed what would turn out to be some of her last words to Katy Perry, the pop star.
“Katy Perry, please stop,” the nun said on Fox 11 in Los Angeles. Please stop trying to buy the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary’s convent, even though the nuns had gone to court to block the sale.
“It’s not doing anyone any good,” Holzman said, then walked into a courtroom, collapsed and died.
The sisters have owned the sprawling Roman-villa style convent for 40 years.
Only a small handful of nuns were still alive when they vacated the complex several years ago, as the diocese looked for someone to buy it.
That someone was Perry – known for her hit “I Kissed a Girl”, among other things. The nuns did not approve.

“I found her videos and … if it’s all right to say, I wasn’t happy with any of it,” Sister Rita Callanan told The Los Angeles Times in 2015.
Claiming that the sisters, not the Vatican, had rights to the Los Feliz convent, Callanan and Hollister signed a contract with someone else.
They agreed to sell the property to a restaurateur who promised to keep the convent open to the public – and pay US$1 million more than the US$14.5 million Perry was offering.
It was “a better deal,” Holzman told Fox 11 that year.

“We’d control the money. [The archbishop] would get what he wanted, eventually.”
“We’re still alive,” she noted, grinning.
Instead, the archdiocese took the sisters to court, and in 2016 won the right to sell to Perry.
The next year, the restaurateur was convicted of malice and fraud and ordered to pay the archdiocese millions in damages for trying to interfere with the sale.
So Callanan and Holzman accompanied the restaurateur to bankruptcy court on Friday – as a show of support.
“We asked her to save us,” Holzman told the cameras outside the courthouse. The nuns had accepted that the legal system would not save their convent from being sold to a pop star, so they pleaded with the Vatican and Perry herself to take mercy.
Then they stood up and walked inside the courtroom, and only one came out.
Additional reporting by Associated Press


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FILE - This June 29, 2015 file photo shows the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary property in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles. A nun involved in a lawsuit with pop star Katy Perry over the sale of the convent in Los Angeles died after collapsing during a court appearance. Archbishop Jose H. Gomez says Sister Catherine Rose Holzman died Friday, March 9, 2018. She was 89. Hours before her death, Holzman spoke to KTTV, speaking out against a judge's ruling that cleared the way for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to sell a convent in the Los Feliz neighborhood to Perry. The singer sought to buy the 8-acre property for $14.5 million. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

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Sister Catherine Rose Holzman was a member of an order of elderly nuns involved in a dispute over the sale of their convent to Katy Perry


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Nun begged pop star Katy Perry not to buy her convent, then collapsed and died in court

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Sister Catherine Rose Holzman was a member of an order of elderly nuns involved in a dispute over the sale of their convent to Katy Perry