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

[Christopher Hart]

Jim,

You're the expert on NYC, but couldn't the picture Mike asked about also
possibly be the Church of the Transfiguration​ (Episcopal), a.k.a. The
Little Church Around the Corner?

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> 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
>



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