Last year on April 16th News 12 aired an item announcing that the Vatican overturned Cardinal Dolan's decree changing St. Mary's from a parish to a secondary church in the Parish of St. Peter-St. Denis. St. Mary's would once again be a parish.
That Vatican decree was issued on March 31, 2025. In News 12's "Easter Miracle" piece a spokesman for the Archdiocese is on record saying that they are reviewing the notice from the Vatican and figuring out the next steps. Here's what those steps turned out to be:
- Nothing:
- No new pastor appointed.
- No parish council created
- Mass schedule unchanged: still only 1 Sunday Mass at 10:00 AM
- Litigation against the City of Yonkers, et al, to remove landmark designation from St. Mary's Church, Rectory and Parish Hall continued.
- Issuing a repeat Decree of Merger with St. Peter-St. Denis on December 17, 2025.
- Ending the landmarking lawsuit with a settlement that removed landmark status from the Parish Hall, the Rectory and the inside of the church. Only the exterior walls of the church are now landmarked: the very walls the Archdiocese alleged were in bad condition and in need of repair to the tune of $10 million.
Despite the recent disappointments in canon and civil law, the parishioners of St. Mary's continue to pour their hearts out in prayer at 10:00 AM Mass every Sunday. On February 4th they sent an appeal of Cardinal Dolan's repeat decree to the Vatican.
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