This one, like some of the others, has most likely become a toilet for the homeless.
Posted on 02/27/2021 5:28:33 PM PST by marshmallow
Old St. Mary’s has lost revenue, laid off staff due to shut down of services
A 167-year-old San Francisco church is reaching out to the community for financial support following a drop in its income due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Old St. Mary’s Church, California’s oldest Cathedral, has set up a GoFundMe in hopes that the community will help make up some of the income it has lost, Old St. Mary’s priest Father John Ardis said.
“We’re hoping that the GoFundMe will reach out to people and that they will share it with their friends and family and hopefully people who have a love for the ministry or the historical aspects of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, which has served the community since 1854,” Ardis said.
The church used to receive about $3,500 each weekend in collections during services, around half of which was from tourists, according to Ardis. That amount has dropped to about $1,000 for each of the eight weekends during the pandemic it has been able to open for reduced services, he said.
The church “faces the very real possibility of having to close its doors to the community, and to the world,” the GoFundMe description states.
The church also has lost income brought in by its preschool program, which it had to shut down due to a drop in enrollment, and its bookstore.
As a result of the lost funds, the church had to lay off two priests and terminate 20 staff members.
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National historic landmark status, anyone?
Sad. Very sad. Gov. Kristi Noem today reminded us she was the only governor that did not close a single church or business, that economic problems were not at all due to Covid but rather due to government actions.
Take a vow of poverty or something.
Florida didn’t close them either. Some cities restricted attendance, but the sad truth is that most of the chuches were closed by the clergy themselves. Our bishop shut down everything even though it wasn’t required (although fortunately some of our priests, particularly traditional rite priests, quietly went ahead and kept their churches open anyway).
Yes, and their, the governments, intent is to destroy Christianity.
This one, like some of the others, has most likely become a toilet for the homeless.
One of the reasons I love strolling through Chinatown.
She is a fake Catholic like Biden.
And Rome plays along.. where are the truth speakers ?? Abortion excommunicaties ..and they are pushing it
Legal bills and lawsuit awards do need to be paid, you know
So, you’re saying...
...The Queen of Heaven got rooked by her Bishop? Good night, what a pawn!
They should have never gone along with the unconstitutional “mandates.” They should have left it up to their parishioners to decide whether or not to risk infection by attending Mass. Is God in charge of our destiny or not?
Make Mexico pay for keeping it going.
Went to a nice wedding there at Old St. Mary’s in SF in 1990. Very cool church. Dear Church. Do you need money? Simple. Just dismiss gay priests. All of them. Then watch your accounts double.
it’s a shame the Vatican never set up a disaster relief fund to sustain their churches. Surely they could see the need would be there.
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