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Where Churches Have Become Temples of Cheese, Fitness and Eroticism

**EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before Monday 3:00 a.m. ET July 30, 2018. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.** Inside Le Chic Resto Pop, a community restaurant that offers low-cost meals and other services in the former Église Saint-Mathias-Apôtre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 4, 2018. Dozens of churches in Quebec have been repurposed into reading rooms, luxury condos, cheese emporiums and upmarket fitness centers in a Canadian province where the Roman Catholic Church is in decline. (Christinne Muschi/The New York Times)

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