Catholic Bishops Join Assault on Cultural Treasures With Demolition of St. Ann’s

[Dawn Marie]

Catholic Bishops Join Assault on Cultural Treasures With Demolition of St. Ann’s

Saint Ann’s Church and Shrine, an unparalleled Buffalo and Western New York treasure that equals or even tops Paris’ Notre Dame and New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, has been decreed profane and now faces an unforgiving wrecking ball by order of newly arrived Bishop Richard Malone.

Bishop Malone is a non-Western New Yorker but his decree is with the full concurrence of recently retired Bishop Kmiec who also is not a local cleric.

St Ann's was built in the 1880’s by German immigrants from Bavaria, Austria and Bohemia, who prepaid for every quarried block before it was floated down the historic Erie Barge Canal from quarries in Lockport to the docks of the Village of Buffalo. Once there, these monstrous blocks were hauled, foot by foot, with horse drawn dredges, to the Sacred Site selected for their soon to be incomparable sanctuary.

All told, hundreds of thousands of unpaid man-hours of backbreaking work were performed over years as this magnificent edifice rose, block by block, to become one of the most important and beautiful structures in the Niagara region.

The decree to demolish this treasure was issued by Bishop Malone without accepting one of many invitations of Saint Ann’s parishioners to visit the church.

 

St Ann's Church in Buffalo

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[Cathleen]

Why in the world is he even thinking about doing this?  He is out of his mind.  :-(  This is sad.

[Dawn Marie]

This is truly very sad.  All the while the muslims are spending 40 million dollars to build a super mosque in Maryland.

:-(

[Luci Hagarty]

What a destructive mentality.  I pray he wakes up and changes his mind.  I will pray for this. 

[Arthur Amidano]

They can destroy the churches but they cannot destroy the true Catholic faith. St. Michael protect us!

[michael kelleher]

is the church building falling apart & needs vast sums of money to may be fix it ?

[Luci Hagarty]

My guess is that they probably do not have enough parishioners to support the maintenance of the building.   Here in New Mexico the Archbishop sold off the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe to pay off debt from lawsuits.  It is a beautiful church with the miraculous stairway built by St. Joseph.

[Alley]

Oh how sad :(

[michael kelleher]

Luci  Hagarty  such a beautfull staircase there are so many things in life we cannot understand

 

 

 

[Gloria]

I thoughts also  ,They can destroy the churches, statues and altars  but they cannot destroy the true Catholic faith. St. Michael protect us!

[Birgitta]

Yet they buy the Crystal Cathedral. What is wrong with these people? 

[2jim8pa2fbnph]

This should not surprise to  anyone.  Satan has been enthroned in our church since the 60's, we are now seeing him  raise his ugly head.