Not everything the Catholic Church holds is sacred.

There's that condo in Camarillo, a couple of orchards in Moorpark and even the land under the sign for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley.

Sale signs could pop up on these and dozens of other properties held by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in the days ahead.

Last week, Cardinal Roger Mahony announced church property would be sold to cover its estimated $40 million share of settling lawsuits brought by victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

The archdiocese is among the larger landholders in Ventura County, according to Assessor Dan Goodwin.

"They are not the biggest, but they own considerable property in the county," he said, noting the church holds in excess of 50 parcels here.

Amgen of Thousand Oaks, with real estate valued at $1 billion for tax purposes, claims the title of the county's biggest property owner. By this measure, it is more difficult to figure exactly how much the church holds, because its houses of worship and schools are exempt from property taxes.

Mahony promised no parishes or parish schools will be sold to fund the settlements in his announcement posted on the archdiocese's Web site last week.

A task force established by the cardinal has identified 50 properties it would make the most sense to sell, Mahony said. First on the block will be the church's headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, Mahony said.

The list is not available to the public, according to Todd Tamberg, a spokesman for the archdiocese. And the church will not release an accounting of its holdings, he said.

A search of assessor and recorder records at the Ventura County Hall of Administration revealed the church has a diverse real estate portfolio here. It owns 80 acres planted in avocados just north of Moorpark College. It also holds title to a midsized office building on Ventura Avenue that houses the Catholic Charities office in Ventura, as well as a tract home on Hedon Circle in Camarillo.

Most of the secular property owned by the church appears on the tax rolls as owned by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles. Churches, convents and parish schools are listed under the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Rectories, usually adjacent to church grounds, are designated as residences and are subject to property taxes, according to Goodwin.

The church has been blessed with friends in deed. Aside from large donations of land by the Camarillos and other pioneer families, people of apparently average means also bequeath properties to the church.

According to documents filed in the recorder's office, a couple left the church two lots in Santa Paula. Others have left homes, condos, empty lots and even vacation property in the Lockwood Valley.

Church officials routinely grant access or easements on its lands to parties such as Southern California Edison for power lines and cell phone providers for their towers.

Several easements were given to the Reagan Library. The library's main sign and a pump station sit on church property.

Even before last week's announcement, the archdiocese planned to sell 60 acres of the St. John's Seminary property in Camarillo to developer Shea Homes.

When Juan Camarillo gave the 100-acre hilltop property to the church in 1924, he stipulated that any revenues from a sale of the land must go toward seminary operations.

Shea Homes hopes to eventually build 300 to 400 homes on the Upland Road property but is in the very early stages of the planning process, according to Bob Burrow, Camarillo's community development director.