[Land of the Irish]

The effort to save Saint Ann’s Church has not stopped. The Society of Pope Saint Pius X offered a Mass on East 12th Street outside of Saint Ann’s on March 6, 2004, to make reparation for its closing and pending sale. Over 300 people were in attendance, another testament to the solid Catholic action offered by the Society (as we saw in the case of Father McMahon and the Buddhists in Grand Rapids, Michigan). The priests of the Society have a far clearer understanding of the spiritual consequences for souls of the closing of Saint Ann's than the self-righteous bottom-line bureucrats at 1011 First Avenue, the address of the twenty-story archdiocesan chancery office.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

“Insiders” reported nearly four years ago that Cardinal Egan was appointed the successor of the late John Cardinal O’Connor partly because of his ability to raise funds

Funny, that's the same reason my bishop was appointed. Nice priorities.