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Originally Posted by ute4ever
Yesterday while discussing how expensive land is in Rome, someone stated that President Monson said that the church already owned the tract of land on which they planned to build. I don't remember whether he said (or alluded to) that during the talk, or whether this person was implying to have insider information.
Meanwhile although Rome is the center of the Catholic faith, I doubt that the LDS temple will be the only non-Catholic religious structure there. In a metro area of that size there must be a dozen religions who are already represented. (That's my American life-with-a-First-Amendment assumption talking).
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Well, the property is disputed. A splinter group of the church currently claims ownership. Not helping matters is the fact that the church has left the property pretty much untouched for a significant period of time, which is tantamount to yielding their property rights to others. 2,000 years of apostasy will do that.