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.** Gérald St-Georges, general manager of Théâtre Paradoxe, housed in what was formerly Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours church, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 5, 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. “I don’t feel any taboo in transforming a church into a theater, as we are remaining true to the church’s mission of serving the community,” St-Georges said. (Christinne Muschi/The New York Times)