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	Supporters Vow to Shelter Nuns United Press International September 11, 2007 http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/09/11/supporters_vow_to_shelter_nuns/2170/ Santa Barbara, Calif. mdash; Supporters vowed to shelter three nuns whose convent will be sold to help pay the costs of California's clergy 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 Angeles Times 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 $700,000 in today's real estate market, the Times reported. The nuns said they have been overwhelmed by offers of support since news broke that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will sell their convent to help pay the diocese's $660 million sex abuse settlement, the newspaper said. At least $250 million of that is to be paid directly by the archdiocese. "What we are trying to do is to preserve our essential ministries and at the same time trying to come up with a heck of a lot of money to pay our share of this settlement," Todd M. Tamberg, diocesan spokesman, told the Times.
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