Posted on 04/14/2015 12:55:35 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
A good chunk of the $100 million raised to restore St. Patrick’s Cathedral has come from non-Catholics — a testament to the love and respect New Yorkers have for all religions, Timothy Cardinal Dolan said Monday.
“We couldn’t be that far were it not for non-Catholic benefactors who have been extraordinarily good to us,” Dolan said in an Association for a Better New York speech.
One “prominent Jewish man” told Dolan that as a child he loved visiting St. Patrick’s, where his mother would always light a candle.
“He said, ‘I don’t think she ever paid for them so . . . here.’ And he gave me a check for $5 million,” Dolan said.
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Nice. And I’m sure they are not posters here on FReeRepublic’s religious thread which has handful of baseless bashers.
I liked going in the Cathedral at Christmas time in our annual visit to Radio City. I was there once to hear Bishop Sheen on Good Friday for 3 hours on the last words of Jesus. New York at Christmas was a must for us. It was beautiful.
St Patrick's is a beautiful building, but why isn't the archdiocese paying the full cost?
Ha!
Yes, St. Pat’s is a beloved edifice on 5th Avenue. Everyone wants it spanking clean and beautiful. (My husband always says St. John the Divine - Protestant - is even more beautiful...which it is, lol.)
Lucky you! The only thing I’m now too young for is Cardinal Sheen! He was pastor at my church, St. Agnes, near Grand Central. I wasn’t around, of course, when he was there.
In the early 1800s, a Catholic cathedral was planned in the first diocese outside of Baltilmore in Bardstown, KY. Many people of the surrounding area, including Protestants, helped to build it by donating building materials. When asked why they (Protestants) would be helping in the building of a Catholic church, they said simply that it was good to have religious buildings springing up. I know that when I drive through areas where there are lots of Baptist churches it makes me feel good.
As it should be. I am Catholic and once made a donation to the building fund of a Baptist church that had burned down.
Thank you to the kind non-Catholics who are helping St. Pat’s.
“He said, ‘I don’t think she ever paid for them so . . . here.’ And he gave me a check for $5 million,” Dolan said.
ping
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/news3.html
From link:
As he takes final sips of green tea, Mr. Cohen remembers that he is close to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. “On the front doors, on the great bronze doors,” he says, “there’s an Indian woman by the name of Catherine Tekakwitha who occupies one of the lower quadrants of the door. I wrote about her.
“She lived not far from me in Montreal in the 17th century. She’s not a saint yet, she’s a venerable, but there’s a cult working for her beatification. She was the first Iroquois to take an oath of virginity. The Iroquois are and were a lusty, energetic people, and the fact that she took an oath of virginity was considered very significant. There are also miracles attached to her existence, and the dust of her grave, when used as amulets and in various situations, has produced miraculous healings.
Color me cynical, but New Yorkers have “love and respect” for historical architecture and real estate. I’ll retract upon evidence of other examples.
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