St. Ann Church These Last Days News - January 18, 2023
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Landmark Buffalo Church Sold to Muslims...

Veronica - And I can see now Jesus and Our Lady are going high up into the sky, and there's forming directly over Our Lady's statue, high in the sky—it is a cross, a very large cross. The handle, though, of a . . . dagger—it looks like a dagger, a knife. It's a strange-looking dagger with a loop at the bottom, like. It's a symbol. And Jesus is nodding.
Jesus - "You will understand, My child, soon."
Veronica - Yes, it is a, like a saber. Gee, it, it's a very strange-looking, dagger-like saber, with a cross on a handle. Like—it's not the kind that you see—it looks almost like Arabian or something. I can't explain it—like a very strange-looking Arabic, or something. I don't know where I have seen that before, but it's a very odd-looking type of dagger-like sword, with a hook on the end of it, though. That's strange. Oh, now it's beginning to fade; I can't see it anymore. - December 24, 1979

"The battle, My child, will accelerate very shortly for there will not only be a great war of weapons of mankind, but it will be known soon throughout the world as a religious war." - Our Lady of the Roses August 21, 1974

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ChurchMilitant.com reported on January 17, 2023:

by Martina Moyski

The diocese of Buffalo has sold a historic — and beloved — German Catholic church to a Muslim organization.

The Downtown Islamic Center (DIC) bought the 164-year-old St. Ann Church, as well as its school and former convent, for $250,000, according to a diocesan press release. Parishioners fought for years to keep the church open — even petitioning Rome.

The DIC plans to repurpose the almost-1-acre plot into a mosque and the largest Islamic Center in North America. It celebrated the takeover as a "dream come true for all the Muslims in Buffalo and all over the United States."

Michael Hichborn, president of the Lepanto Institute — which is named after the victory of Christian naval forces over the Ottoman Turks in 1571 — deplored the sale.

Hichborn told Church Militant on Tuesday, "Bishops aren't supposed to be corporate CEOs. They're the stewards of souls. So it's absolutely damnable for the diocese to refuse to sell this church to faithful Catholics while practically giving it to the Muslims."

The Faithful Denied

Indeed, for well over a decade, parishioners and Friends of St. Ann fought to save their church and pushed back on every obstacle the diocese put in their way.

In 2011, when then-bishop of Buffalo Edward Kmiec ordered St. Ann's closed, the parishioners rallied, eventually petitioning Rome to spare it.

In 2013, the diocese received estimates that claimed the building needed $8–$12 million for repairs before it could again be used for worship. But parishioners quickly received their own estimates indicating "the most pressing work" — to "address safety concerns — mortar replacement, stone stabilization and other repairs on the two towers" could be done "for less than $200,000."

This beautiful church, St Ann's church in Buffalo has been sold to a Muslim organization for 250000 dollars to be converted to a mosque😞

Our churches which were built for worship should not be put on sale. Catholics in the US should never allow something similar to happen again pic.twitter.com/o3CaOe7KVz
— Sachin Jose (@Sachinettiyil) January 12, 2023

When, in the same year, the diocese declared the building would be demolished, the parishioners petitioned Buffalo's Common Council to approve the landmark status of their church in an effort to preserve it.

Then the diocese countermoved by putting demolition on hold and announced it would be open to selling the sacred site for nonreligious use. But parishioners celebrated news from the Vatican in 2014 that St. Ann's could not be used for a "profane" (i.e., nonreligious) use.

In 2017, however, St. Ann's suffered a knockout punch. The diocesan appeal to the Apostolic Signatura to overturn the Ruling of the Congregation for the Clergy rendered a verdict in favor of the diocese.

In March 2022, The Buffalo News reported on the sale of the property, "A group of local businesspeople and investors is buying the St. Ann's Church and Shrine complex, with the intention of preserving the church while turning the rectory and school building into a facility for short-term mental health care."

The report said that, since the deal is not yet final and involves a nondisclosure agreement, the buyers would not be identified publicly.

On Nov. 16, 2022, the diocese issued a press release announcing the sale of the magnificent 164-year-old church. "The sale of the former St. Ann's Church property located at 651 Broadway, Buffalo, closed today," it read.

A former parishioner and co-chair of Friends of St. Ann, Martin Ederer, told Church Militant he was crushed but not surprised by the final outcome.

In the January–February 2023 issue of the internationally distributed newspaper The German Citizen, Ederer wrote:

For those of us who worked so hard for well over a decade to preserve St. Ann Church in its original state, this is a bitter ending. The streetscape will be preserved. The German Catholic heritage of the place, however, will be stripped out and lost. The vast majid — a mosque — is the future for the church. According to Islam's own rules, all Christian art and imagery must go. How much the Diocese of Buffalo will remove or preserve remains to be seen. There is little hope for optimism.

Ederer, a state university professor in Buffalo, bears no animosity towards the members of the DIC. On the contrary, he commends them, writing, "They have a faith and a vision and a zeal for the future."

He didn't bear the same sentiments for the diocese, however. "In our attempts to save St. Ann Church and Shrine from the stripped-out future that now awaits," he said, "we encountered precious little of those things from the Diocese of Buffalo, and no openness to any solution outside done-deal plans."

Appropriate Sale?

Attorney Brody Hale, president of the St. Stephen Protomartyr Project, which works to preserve Catholic churches for sacred use, questions whether the guidelines of the Dicastery for the Clergy of the Holy See (the Vatican department in charge of the closure and sale of churches) were followed.

Hale said the dicastery instructs that when "financial insufficiency is pled as a grave cause to justify the relegation of a church to profane but not sordid use," it must be demonstrated that all sources of funding have been found "lacking or inadequate."

But the attorney doesn't believe this was demonstrated and contends that the diocese of Buffalo "did not fully assess the capability of the Friends of St. Ann to restore the church prior to fighting their attempts to undertake the restoration all the way to the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, where, of course, the diocese was victorious."

Hale said, "At the end of the day, I don't believe the Holy See truly cares about its own rules."

A Troubling Trend

What happened at St. Ann in Buffalo seems to be part of an accelerating trend of closing, selling and demolishing churches in the United States.

Church Militant recently reported on the historic All Saints Church in Detroit as just one example of this trend. The church needed $160,000 for repairs but was sold by the archdiocese to a Muslim realtor for an estimated $300,000. The more than 100-year-old church was subsequently razed in 2022.

Ederer ended his article lamenting and praying for Catholics wishing to preserve their sacred spaces. He wrote, "What will remain for Catholics is a legacy of stale bureaucratic arrogance, cultural and artistic destruction, and no interest in an ethnic and faith heritage — in a word, desolation. God help us all."

But Brody encouraged Catholics to keep up the fight: "I must say that resistance is never useless. ... The more Catholics who stand up and defend our sacred churches, the harder it will be for those authorities in this country and in Rome who wish to continue liquidating them to get away with doing so."

PERSECUTION
"All who continue in the battle ahead must accept martyrdom. It does not, My child, necessarily mean death of your body, but it will mean persecution. Stand fast in the faith. Keep the faith in the hearts of those you love. Extend your charity of heart to all of your brother and sisters throughout the world. Pray a constant vigilance of prayer." - Our Lady, October 2, 1974

THE GOOD SHALL BE TRODDEN UPON
"My child and My children of grace, remember in the days ahead: your world and your country shall appear to all those in the light as though insanity has come upon them. The good shall be trodden upon, and the evil ones shall gain in worldly goods until all voices cry to Heaven: 'Lord, Lord! When shall you send Your vengeance upon them? Why do the wicked go about their way in gain while they trod underfoot the godly?'
"My children, the Eternal Father has a way that no human mind or man could understand. He is patient; He is all-suffering and long-suffering, never wishing that one should be lost to satan.” – Our Lady, April 2, 1977

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These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

EXAMPLE OF THE SAINTS
"You must instruct and bring to your children the knowledge of your saints. Their example is in the light, My children. Those you have set up to idolize upon earth now are the creations of satan. You must accept and follow the example of your saints, those who have been given this honor by your holy Church. They, too, My child, did not win their crowns without trial, rejection, and often, martyrdom." -Jesus, June 5, 1975

WASHED CLEAN
"The saints and those who were washed clean by the blood of martyrdom, they join all in Heaven crying for vengeance against deceitful mankind and the abominations that offend the Eternal Father--abominations in the House of God!" - St. Michael, September 13, 1974

IN THE FEW
"Many martyrs, My child, shall come in the days ahead, and defenders of the Faith. Carry your crosses, My children, for those who will be saved shall be in the few." - Jesus, November 20, 1975

MEDIAS OF COMMUNICATION ARE CONTROLLED
"My children, I beg of you as your Mother--I come to you from Heaven as a Mediatrix between God and man; you must listen to Me now. I warned you in the past that your medias of communication are controlled. The only guide you will have now are the messages from Heaven, given through various seers, and other miraculous manifestations from the Eternal Father to man.
     "Many shall be martyred in the days ahead. Heaven can be gained through martyrdom.” – Our Lady, November 24, 1979

“THE CHOICE IS YOURS”
“If you still My voice, My children, you will be destroyed. Your country shall then feel a destruction both physical and spiritual.
     "My children, the choice is yours. Are you trying, with the help of prayer and counsel from Heaven, to save your country, or are you going to allow the world powers controlled by Lucifer to destroy your country, as Lucifer has worked to destroy many nations already upon your earth. I say again, My children: the decision is yours!” – Our Lady, November 24, 1979

BE VERY CAREFUL
"My children, you must be very careful now what you read in your news medias because your country is controlled. Most nations of your earth now are controlled by the forces of evil. Before you make any judgment, My children, in matters of faith and morals, you will read your good Bible. And do not accept any changes in the Book of life and love." – Jesus, September 28, 1978

MEDIAS CONTROLLED BY THE EVIL ONES
“Much--most now, My children, of your medias are controlled by the evil ones. It will take man of great knowledge and light to fully be able to understand what is true, truth, what is fact, or what has been made fiction by the enemies of your God. It is a known fact that now, My children, your newspapers are controlled. Your television is an agent of satan, an abominable agent of satan, corrupters of souls.

ALL MEDIAS INFILTRATED AND CONTROLLED
"Many of your medias--I will say all of your medias now, My children--have been infiltrated and controlled.” – Our Lady, July 14, 1979

IMMEDIATE ENTRANCE
"My children, are there so few who will suffer for the Faith? Are My children lost to the need for suffering and martyrdom for the Faith? Do you not understand, My children, that martyrdom means immediate entrance into Heaven. Is this not worth fighting for?" - Our Lady, November 20, 1978

MANY GREAT SAINTS SHALL RISE
"Awaken now from your slumber and seek your return from your course of destruction by getting down upon your knees and praying in heartfelt, sincere prayer to the Eternal Father, to guide you back from your present road of destruction.
     "Your countrymen have sought to silence the voice of My Mother throughout your world. You will not continue to silence the voice-boxes throughout the world, for you are sowing the seeds of your own destruction!
     "Amen, amen, I say to you: unless mankind returns God the Eternal Father to his life, he will not have the years of two hands to count upon!
     "The present generation, My child, shall pass through this crucible of suffering. Many great saints shall rise from this persecution.” – Jesus, June 5, 1975

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