Holy Angels Church

This article is about the Holy Angels Church. For other uses, see Church (disambiguation).

Holy Angels Church
Entrance on the eastern side
Information
Type	Church
City	Night City
District	Little Europe (2020) Little Europe (2045)
Sub-District	Northside (2020)
Street	Shirley (2020)
Appearance(s)
Game(s)	Cyberpunk 2020 Cyberpunk RED
Book(s)	Night City Sourcebook Night City 2045 Atlas

I know it's hard to understand in a place like Night City, kid, but this is a holy place. So, either respect the sanctity of my church or you'll be respecting the sanctity of my fists.

 — Father Kevin, Cyberpunk RED

Holy Angels Church, also known as the Holy Angels Catholic Church, is a stone Roman Catholic church building located in central Night City. During the 2020s it offered traditional Latin Mass from Monday to Friday at 7am, Sunday at 8am and reformed Mass in English (with Spanish speaking deacons available for translations) at 8:30am Monday to Saturday and 10am Sunday. Free meals were available twice a day from 8 to 9am and from 5 to 6pm.

History

Early history - 2020s

Holy Angels Church was initially endowed by a terminally ill heiress with a guilty conscience. The building originally housed a small parochial school, but was transformed into a soup kitchen and homeless shelter at some point.

Unstable world conditions and the reforms of the Catholic Church in 2014 brought many alienated Catholics back to the comforting tradition of a conservative liturgy, combined with a more liberal, socially responsive church. With the acceptance of limited pre-conception birth control by the Pope in 2014, the way was open for many to reclaim their faith and for third-world countries to re-embrace the church while solving their overwhelming population problems. Among these people were many of the staff that would take care of the building in the coming years.

By 2020, Holy Angels was ran by two priests; Father Kevin, who came to the church late in life, and Father Paul. Among the church staff was Lucy, a lay sister and Paul's wife. Sisters Mary Grace, Elizabeth, Ruth, and Theresa ran the soup kitchen and catechism classes. Diners were not required to go to mass, but it made the sisters happy. In addition, there were 12 deacons (community members that hold a position in the church), including Daniel O'Flaherty. The church accepted anyone who needed shelter, and the only entry requirement was that all weapons had to be turned over to Father Kevin for safekeeping, including cyberware ammunition. The homeless shelter offered meals for the hungry, but feeding all these people was't cheap and the church was usually just scraping by. Father Kevin was always on the lookout for wealthy families or corporations that could be creatively convinced to donate. Additional income came from dinners, bake sales and street fairs on church holidays (patrolled by the deacons), church-goers and many of the more loyal patrons of the Holy Angels shelter. On St. Patrick's Day the church could be a fun place to be, featuring popular snake races that drew out-of-town tourists. Free childcare was also offered with parents participating on a rotating basis.

Holy Angels was also known as a place to mediate disputes for anyone willing to ask, as long as they turned over their weapons. Father Kevin had an exceptional record for peacefully settling gang or corporations disputes. On a few occasions though, he had had to call the NCPD when trying to diffuse tense gang situations. Whether the police desisted out of fear of God or Father Kevin was unknown.

2030s - 2040s

Still led by Father Kevin and Father Paul during the Time of the Red, Holy Angels was still providing shelter and spiritual guidance for those who needed it, and mediation for anyone who had disputes as long as they were willing to lay down their weapons and calmly talk. Father Kevin's record for peacefully settling gang or corporation issues was still exceptional even in the trying Time of the Red.

By the 2040s, Holy Angels was known far and wide as neutral ground in Night City. It was also well known that the 6th Street gang were welcome protectors of the church, and the solo Dillon Murphy could usually be found around the building as well.

Layout

Map of the first floor of Holy Angels Church

This three-story stone structure contained many rooms for different purposes. The main entrance gave access to the nave, where the benches and the altar were located. On the left side of the building's first floor there was a kitchen with a storage room, a confessional, and an office. The right side had the bathrooms, a soup kitchen and a sleeping area. Homeless shelter space was filled up starting on the first floor and expanding into the second. It could accommodate up to 250 people and was open 24 hours a day. The third floor contained the living quarters, where Sisters Mary, Elizabeth, Ruth, and Theresa lived. This floor also contained Father Kevin's study, where he kept any confiscated weapons in a locked metal storage closet.

All the church's stained glass windows were barred. At midnight, all doors were closed and IR and movement sensors around the building were activated (the doors had steel cores and reinforced hinges). There was always one member of the staff on duty inside with a panic button linked to the third floor. In case of emergencies, there was always enough food and fresh water for twenty people for one month stored on the third floor. Tasers and dart weapons were standard issue for church staff when walking in the community. Deacons were also responsible for, among other things, the safety of parishioners coming into the city.

Staff

• Father Kevin
• Father Paul
• Sister Lucy - A lay sister and Father Paul's wife.
• Sister Mary Grace - A veteran of third-world stands much worse than Night City.
• Sister Elizabeth - A veteran of third-world stands much worse than Night City. She has visible scars from the removed street tattoos she used to have before joining the Church.
• Sister Ruth - A veteran of third-world stands much worse than Night City.
• Sister Theresa - A veteran of third-world stands much worse than Night City.
• Daniel O'Flaherty - One of the deacons at Holy Angels Church and owner of the neighboring O'Flaherty's Tavern.
• 11 unnamed deacons - Community members that hold a position in the church.

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