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The bishop should be removed and jailed for vandalism and frivolous misuse of church funds.

To add insult to injury, Sacred Heart Cathedral is of great historical significance, since it was the home to Archbishop Fulton Sheen, where he reigned as Bishop of Rochester, New York, from 1966 until 1969. Sheen is considered by many to be the most influential Catholic leader in America during the 20th century. In 1999, Cardinal John O'Connor opened an investigation to consider Archbishop Sheen as a candidate for sainthood. Sacred Heart was the only cathedral that Sheen was ever assigned to as Bishop.

Sacred Heart Preservation Committee

If you revist the link I posted in my previous post, you will discover that Clark has already ripped out the pews and sold them at auction for $10-20 each! I truly commend the person who set up the Domus Dei web site and have tracked each and every action taken to prevent the destruction of this beautiful cathedral. Sadly, despite submitting a petition with 10,000 signatures to the Vatican and asking the City of Rochester to declare the cathedral a landmark, the wreckovation continues, under the guidane of ... who else .... Fr. Dr. Vosko!

The bishops must address the scandal of wreckovation. They need to break up these contractor mafiosi making decisions about church design. The people making money off the Church for bad wacky wreckovation need to be removed and should NEVER be give another church contract. If they are caught doing it once, they should never again be rewarded with a church building or renovation contract.

Besides the moral issues involved (HMBA as you say a waste of funds which could be used for SOCIAL issues that the progs love unless they need the money for something "more important") when "they" do this kind of thing they must have no idea of the scandal they cause to the faithful and I would stake my life that issues like this are part of the reason why a good portion of the 70% of Catholics who don't attend Mass weekly no longer have anything to do with the Church.

Same with McPhoney's Cathedral... millions and millions of dollars spent when there are hungry and sick people on the streets of LA, and then he's quick to cry poormouth and cut services (although part of the chancery staff was cut but you know the cuts weren't directed at his friends). Oh, and I just remembered that he hired a very, very expensive PR firm.

I can't even begin to think about Bishop Sheen's relationship to Sacred Heart Cathedral or I will really wreck my night off from work. Seems like Bishop Clark is trying to obliterate traces of Bishop Sheen.

Sheen is considered by many to be the most influential Catholic leader in America during the 20th century.

Sheen was a magnificent preacher and was likely responsible for more conversions than any other Catholic bishop in the history of this country.

However, Sheen didn't want to be bishop of Rochester and was likely forced into the job by some jealous Vatican bureaucrat, who couldn't stand the fact that Sheen was a television personality.

Expectations were too high, and Sheen proved to be an inept administrator, since he largely ignored the administrative side of the job (he HATED it, in fact).

He requested, directly from Paul VI, that he be allowed to spend the rest of his episcopal career in service to preaching, which was the vocation God had blessed Him with in the first place.

Paul VI granted his wish, and made him an archbishop.

Sheen had no business being made a diocesan administrator. There's no shame in that; a very large number of the present occupants of episcopal sees don't belong there either!

You can hope that Vosko draws up the plans for the renovation--and I mean in a technical sense "draws up the plans."

Because he is NOT an architect, the second construction begins, you can sue to force them to cease and desist--unless the plans have a stamp from a REAL architect, it is a violation of City, County, and State codes to use them.