Per NY Post: "Hellish NYC church demolition breaks noise rules, works overnight without permit" - with canonical and civil procedures pending.

Helayne Seidman for NY Post

Salient selection: 

"Chany and Cornell filed legal proceedings with the Vatican to oppose the merger in 2016 and the deconsecration in 2017, arguing St. Elizabeth was a spiritual home to deaf Catholics.

The church held masses led by a pastor fluent in American sign language, along with a deaf choir.

hey also filed a civil action in Manhattan Supreme Court challenging the church’s sale to Saffayeh due to the ongoing Vatican cases.

On Thursday, a judge scheduled a July 17 court date for the civil action.

The fact that the parish is proceeding with demolition with no decision yet on the three-church merger, “it’s almost as if Cardinal Dolan is thumbing his nose at Pope Francis and the Vatican’s judicial system,” Chany said. “But the Supreme Court of the State of New York seems to be recognizing the Vatican’s authority.”

St. Elizabeth has been vacant since July 2015, Chany said, so “why rush to do this?”"

Read all about it: https://nypost.com/2024/06/15/us-news/ues-parish-jumps-gun-with-secret-demolition/