Anonymous $20 million donation saves church built by Irish immigrants

The re-opened church was to list the names of all of Romes priests, bishops and cardinals who starved to death during the famine but they couldn't find any. The idiot Irish: building memorials to an organisation that's corrupted Ireland and raped it's children.

stanJames – lay off. I work in the construction field and I hate to see old buildings and works built by master-craftsmen being destroyed. The benefactor of St. Brigid’s had his reasons. You should at least respect that generosity of him. You, on the other hand, sound like a money-chasing git who has no conception of what generosity means. May the church and the parish of St. Brigid and St. Emeric live long into the future and be a haven for all, as St. Brigid of Ireland would wish.

$20 mil would provide 200 children / parents with some compensation for the endless hidden molestation of children by its power hungry sex starved priests. Its time to break the corporate barriers and extend the statue of limitations to the lifetime of the abused children. 100,000 in the usa alone per SNAP

Fantastic story! Many of the original churches built buy the hard work and pennies of the early Irish who "did without for their church" are near destruction. These building are churches and also a historical monuments to the faith and perseverance of the famine Irish in their new land.I hope this wonderful individual has an iron clad contract, that the church, at some later date can not sell the high value NY property for some other reason.Those who had ancestors who passed through Brooklyn and New York would find it a treasure to visit these early Irish churches including the Old St. Patrick's Church in lower Manhattan.

When I was a freshman or sophomore at Maria Regina HS, I was part of an organization called Hand to Hand. We used to get on a bus and travel down to the Lower East Side to St. Brigid's parish. I was a reading tutor for second grade students; all from St. Brigid's School. I am so happy to see that God has led a benefactor to this very important landmark.