Although President Nicolas Sarkozy of France wrote directly to both Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the Archbishop of New York and to Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York, to express the French government's interest in preserving the church. He received as the French would say "l'oiseau."
The church of St. Vincent de Paul is now a little closer to demolition. The votive statue over the main door and windows have been removed. What if anything from the interior will be saved is a matter of conjecture. The murals will soon be dust.
Will the monument to the Lafayette Squadron that President Charles de Gaulle of France attend the re-dedication of after World War II be saved? Not that monuments or memorials to non clerics count for much in the great scheme of the Church.
The Archbishop managed to find $175 million to spruce up St. Paricks but the boys from the main office hang there, only people used St. Vincent's.
I hope they made a pretty penny, or at least thirty pieces of silver, when they sold this piece of our Catholic heritage.
But don't worry about the archbishop he is getting a new private garage:
newyorkyimby.com/2015/12/st-patricks-cathedral-to-get-new...
