[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.

[Maximilian]

Thanks for this article. Drolesky is inspired. His vision of history is encompassing, and it is so intimately united with the Catholic faith.

Desdemona and Siobahn and American Colleen and others who were interested in the church-closing threads will want to read this article, if for nothing else then to see what real outrage feels like. To sell the spiritual and material treasures of the Church in order to fund the settlements of the legal cases against the sodomites they've ordained, this is a crime that calls out to God for vengeance.

Also, for Sneakers, on the other thread I didn't do a very good job explaining why the picture of that altar got me so worked up, and I think for those who are used to those sorts of church buildings they can't understand what the big deal is, but this article does a much better job than I did explaining what a church is supposed to be, what it is supposed to represent, and why it is such a crime when that beauty and purpose are destroyed by ruthless fanatics determined to stamp out authentic Catholic faith.

[Maximilian]

Here is a photo of the interior:

And the exterior: