Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant ruled Tuesday that Hollister, who wants to use the convent for a hotel and restaurant project, will make the $25,000 monthly payments to the small order of elderly nuns who own the property while lawsuits over the sale are pending.

Chalfant noted that Perry was not willing to pay rent on the convent while Hollister and the archdiocese fight in court, and the judge scoffed at the archdiocese’s estimate that the property could fetch $75,000 a month in rent.

The judge, who described the former convent as a “nice property, but kind of a white elephant” in need of some improvements, said Perry did not offer to pay any interim rent.

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles, however, wants to sell the 1927 estate – nestled in the Los Feliz neighborhood near Hollywood – to Perry for $14.5 million to refurbish it as a residence.

A hearing in October will begin proceedings to determine who has the authority to sell the property.

Chalfant’s ruling also kept in place his orders that Hollister not sell or transfer the property in the meantime and that she not interfere with a priests’ house of prayer on the property.

The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary contend that they have the legal authority to sell the property and that their sale agreement with restaurateur Dana Hollister for $15.5 million was legal.

The Roar hitmaker had been in negotiations with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to buy the building formerly occupied by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Feliz, but two ex-residents, Sisters Rita Callahan and Catherine Rose Holzman, objected.

Katy Perry’s lawyer expressed the pop singer’s willingness to rent the property at a July 30th hearing, but Perry’s representatives did not speak at today’s hearing.

Hollister was in the process of renovating the convent when she was sued by the archdiocese earlier this year.