A Bronx church is both a place of worship and a community center that draws people of different religions and cultures in by providing resources that are inaccessible to them…
POP is different from most other real-estate finance operations in two ways. First, it’s named after a papal encyclical. Second, it underwrites housing working-class New Yorkers can afford.
Many in the Occupy Wall Street movement frame their advocacy in religious terms. For one Brooklyn clergyman, that means tension with some churches, and challenges for his own congregation.
