The Diocese of Central New York stays classy

Matt Kennedy
Saturday, January 31, 2009

St. John the Evangelist Church is a large Catholic parish one block away from the former Good Shepherd buildings. Msgr. Meagher, the priest at St. John's, graciously offered to host Good Shepherd's Thursday night soup kitchen,the Shepherd's Bowl, temporarily while we were are transitioning from one location to another. Last week, having already vacated the buildings, we hung signs on the former Good Shepherd property directing Shepherd's Bowl people to St.

John's where they would find a good warm meal and free loaves of bread. This Tuesday our attorney handed the keys to our former building over to the Diocese of Central New York. I considered taking the signs down, but thought better of it. Surely, I thought, the Diocese of Central New York would not want to make it difficult for poor, hungry people to find a soup kitchen.

Silly me. The rest at Stand Firm