[Magdalen] A little parish in the shadow of the Empire Sta

[Joseph Cirou]

I have a gay friend in New York, and he was always singing the praises of Cardinal O'Connor

The other things I heard are very favorable especially how he really knew his priests and would be inquiring about the family etc etc etc.

Compared to his immediate successor he was very well liked.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
>Sent: Sep 16, 2015 11:24 AM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] A little parish in the shadow of the Empire Sta
>
>>I have a pic of such a thing, from an AP article years ago.  It's a tiny thing, 
>>surrounded by bustling New York, with, as mentioned, the Empire State Building 
>>just >a couple blocks away.  Which parish is it?
>
>The smallest appearing church within a two block radius of the Empire State 
>Building is the RC Friars of St Francis between Sixth and Seventh Avenues near 
>Penn Station.
>
>It looks tiny on the outside, but it runs trough the block with a taller section 
>in the center that one can’t see from the streets.
>
>Fr. Mychal Judge, chaplain to the NYC Fire Department (as well as Dignity) was a 
>member of the order and lived there.
>
>I don’t know if they still do, but at the height of the AIDS crisis, they held 
>funeral Masses for gay men regularly -- sometimes twice a day -- despite the 
>disapproval of Cardinal O'Connor.
>
>Cheers,
>Jim Guthrie 
>