While many of us enjoyed our traditional "gold coin" chocolates at church yesterday in anticipation of St. Nicholas' Feast Day today, a more somber commemoration took place at New York's Ground Zero. Among the buildings demolished by terrorists on September 11, 2001, was the Greek Orthodox church of St.Nicholas. Loyal St. Nicholas parishioners gather each year to light candles and pray at the location of their former church home. Why not simply rebuild? That possibility is lost in a myriad of rules and wrangling with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. While the red tape can be sliced and funding multiplied for the egregious Islamic Center proposed for Ground Zero, the red tape only seems to pile higher for poor St. Nicholas. The faithfulness alone of the parish's 70-odd families suggests that their sojourn of nearly 10 years be brought to an appropriate and happy end. Details.
Hat tip to Bill Morris.
1 comments:
This church should be rebuilt with the full support...moral and otherwise...of everyone, but the Liberal elites only want to support Islamist shrines to victory over the West. Sad.
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