“Making all Things New” and Holy Innocents Church: Press Roundup

The story that will not go away…. I regret that technical, personal and health reasons have distracted us from the day to day coverage of the Holy Innocents story – but here is a collection of the most relevant articles.

First, from the August 10 bulletin of Holy Innocents Church:

“CHURCHES REALIGNMENT UPDATE
The Making All Things New (MATN) process continues. Last December, the Archdiocese assigned the Church of the Holy Innocents to a Cluster of parishes as part of MATN. This Cluster — Cluster No. 20 — included the Church of St. Francis of Assisi and the Church of St. John the Baptist. Each Cluster was required to submit Suggestions to the Archdiocesan Advisory Group (AAG) about the future of the parishes in the Cluster.
Cardinal Dolan allowed Clusters to make one of two suggestions: Collaboration or Consolidation. In late March, Cluster No. 20 suggested Collaboration among St. Francis, St. John the Baptist and Holy Innocents. In late April, the AAG recommended Consolidation: merging three parishes into St. Francis of Assisi, St. John the Baptist, Holy Innocents and St. Michael (introduced into the Cluster by the AAG). In early June, Cluster No. 20 submitted its Response to the AAG. Cluster No. 20 responded that (1) no parish should be merged into St. Francis, (2) St. John the Baptist should remain an independent parish, (3) St. Michael should remain an independent parish and (4) Holy Innocents should be merged into St. Michael.
In late June, the AAG was scheduled to release its Final Recommendations to Cardinal Dolan. Cardinal Dolan will then announce his final decisions in September.”

Then, this article from the New York Times:
“New York Parish Fears Losing Daily Dose of ‘Spiritus Sancti’ –
Church of the Holy Innocents, Home of the City’s Only Daily Latin Mass, Might Close”

And this from the New York Observer:
“The Last Daily Latin Mass in New York Is Facing Extinction”
Read more at http://observer.com/2014/08/the-last-daily-latin-mass-in-new-york-is-facing-extinction/#ixzz3APq1bAWy
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Then, there is this fiery article from Fox News:

“The ‘Pope Francis Effect’: The War on Conservative Catholics in New York”

We are aware that the above three articles contain factual errors – but these does not detract from their force.