The Katy Perry nun saga over her efforts to buy a convent from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles continues with Sister Rita Callanan fighting to keep the convent after the recent death of Sister Catherine Rose Holzman.
For years the nuns have fought to block the sale of their convent to Perry.
Earlier this month they appeared in court to support bankruptcy proceedings of local developer Dana Hollister, who was previously ordered to pay $15 million in damages for undermining Perry's purchase of the convent from Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which the nuns opposed, Fox 11 Los Angeles reported.
Holzman said in an interview with Fox 11 Los Angeles, that the incident was not doing any good, just hurting people.
"Katy Perry, please stop," she said just hours before entering the court room where she collapsed and died, the station reported.
Holzman, 89, and Callanan, 79, were the two last living sisters of the covenant opposing the $14.5 million sale to Perry and, in the wake of her counterpart's death, Callanan said she was not going to give up, The Daily Beast reported.
She insisted that an agreement approved by the Vatican in 1992 guaranteed that every nun in the order be taken care of.
"We would be living there and have spiritual, and if necessary, physical help," Callanan said, pointing out that the agreement pertained right down to the last living nun, according to The Daily Beast.
Callanan held the archbishop responsible and criticized Perry.
"I just feel that Katy Perry is used to getting all she wants, and to her money means everything, and to her, whatever Katy wants, Katy gets," she said, according to The Daily Beast
The law firm representing the Archbishop of Los Angeles said in a statement that majority of the nuns had "agreed to have the Archbishop sell their former convent on their behalf in 2014 with all proceeds going to the Institute for the care of the Sisters."
According to the statement, a cash offer put forth by a company owned by Perry had already been approved by the Archbishop.
Callanan, who reportedly suffers from diabetes and breast cancer, has now said the legal fees arising from the legal embroilment have left her bankrupt and unable to look after herself, The Telegraph noted.
She explained that she was threatened with cancellation from her health insurance provider and had to borrow money from a friend.
"I didn't want it cancelled," she said. "I was two months in arrears."
Callanan said that throughout the ordeal, the nuns were never afforded the opportunity to give their side of the story.
"The jury never heard our story.," she said, per The Daily Beast. "I would have liked the jury to have heard that we were the ones who asked Dana to buy the property and she was trying to help us out."
She was planning the next steps with her attorney and has started a Go Fund Me campaign to raise money for the legal battle against Perry.
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