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Community of Our Lady of Peace NYC Restore the parish & reopen the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Peace, New York City! There is a pending Vatican appeal. Our Lady of Peace was one of them.

Cardinal Dolan closed the church on July 31, 2015, then leased it in March 2017. Click SIGN UP to petition Pope Francis. The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Peace, New York City was founded by Italian immigrants from Sicily and Northern Italy. The first pastor, Father Filippo Leone, was born in Prizzi in the province of Palermo province. Citizens of Borgetto, Sicily built a small chapel and stained glass window dedicated to the Madonna di Romitello. Many immigrants came from the province of Parma, where a strong Bedoniese community settled on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. One of the parishioners created a small chapel on the left of the church to the Madonna di San Marco, the patroness of the Basilica in Bedonia. The Church of Our Lady of Peace was dedicated on April 13, 1919, by Cardinal Hayes and named for the peace that followed the First World War. In November 2014, Cardinal Dolan decided to merge many parishes in the Archdiocese of New York. It was slated to be closed by August 1, 2015. Parishioners mounted a huge effort to save the parish and church, including an appeal to the Vatican. After its closure, it was open only on a few occasions - the destination wedding of a couple from Ireland in September 2015 and three funeral Masses of parishioners who died in 2016. The church was leased to the Coptic Orthodox in March 2017, while the Vatican appeal advanced to the Apostolic Signatura. Then, in May 2017, parishioners were able to have the 98th Anniversary Mass, celebrating the dedication of the church - a Mass they were denied in 2016. Parishioners continue their outreach to the community by holding occasional special events and liturgical services, quarterly meetings, and the continuous 54-Day Miraculous Rosary Novena to Our Lady and Evening Prayers, held outside the church at 6 PM since the church was closed. Outreach through social media has grown exponentially with more than 14,000 followers and supporters on Facebook throughout the world. Our Lady of Peace has a mission to be a Marian Center for Peace! Parishioners raised enough funds to support the church for 10 years in order to demonstrate to the Vatican the strength and solvency of the parish.

07/09/2026
Catholic News New York (Aug.15, 2022)Bartholomew “Bart” Daly, M.H.M., who served twice as a pastor and as vicar for reli...
08/14/2022

Catholic News New York (Aug.15, 2022)
Bartholomew “Bart” Daly, M.H.M., who served twice as a pastor and as vicar for religious in the archdiocese, died Aug. 6 at Wexford General Hospital in County Wexford in his native Ireland. He was 86.

Father Daly served as vicar for religious, beginning in the 1990s, while also serving as pastor of Our Lady of Peace parish in Manhattan. He was pastor of St. Francis Xavier parish in the Bronx, 1988-1992.

Born in Limerick, Ireland, he was ordained a Mill Hill priest in 1962 in London. He took final vows with the Mill Hill Missionaries in 1961.

Beginning in the early 2000s, Father Daly served in various administrative roles for the Mill Hill Missionaries in the United States. In 2015, he moved to the Mill Hill House in Hartsdale. He returned to Ireland to celebrate his 60th Jubilee July 8. He fell ill, was hospitalized July 30 and died Aug. 6.

His first missionary appointment was in upstate Slingerlands. From there, he served in the Diocese of Kisumu, Kenya, 1964-1970. He was reappointed to the U.S. to serve as rector of the Mill Hill community in the Bronx.

Father Daly followed his studies for the priesthood in the Netherlands at the Mill Hill College in Roosendaal, and later St. Joseph's College, Mill Hill, London.

A Funeral Mass was offered Aug. 10 at St. Joseph’s parish in Terenure, Ireland. Burial was at Bohernabreena Cemetery in Dublin.

A Memorial Mass for Father Daly will be offered at St. John the Evangelist Church, White Plains, Saturday, Sept. 10, at 11 a.m.
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(Photo captured during live streaming of Father Daly’s funeral by Richard Aguinaldo)

Surely, He Has Borne Our Griefs (August 2015) Father Bartholomew Daly and the closing of OLP.
08/12/2022

Surely, He Has Borne Our Griefs (August 2015) Father Bartholomew Daly and the closing of OLP.

"A prayer for priests." Among the candles on the church steps that have become an altar on the street, someone placed that devotion, tucked neatly under a framed photo of Bartholomew Daly - the parish priest, pastor/administrator, Mill Hill Missionary, Irish immigrant. Taken by the Pulitzer Prize wi...

HOMILY given by Father Bartholomew Daly at Our Lady of Peace NYC on the occasion of the ‘Mass Mob’ event, 25 January 201...
08/12/2022

HOMILY given by Father Bartholomew Daly at Our Lady of Peace NYC on the occasion of the ‘Mass Mob’ event, 25 January 2015. 🙏❤️
Rest In Peace.

In an effort to save the parish from closing by the NY Archdiocese, the church was standing room only as Father Daly delivered a thankful homily to the found...

08/10/2022

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration
And then proclaim, my God, how great Thou art…
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee
How great Thou art, how great Thou art
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee
How great Thou art, how great Thou art
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

In memoriam ✝️ 🙏Diamond Jubilee, Fr. Bart Daly, mhm, Ordained July 8, 1962'I give profound thanks to God for the many ye...
08/10/2022

In memoriam ✝️ 🙏

Diamond Jubilee, Fr. Bart Daly, mhm, Ordained July 8, 1962
'I give profound thanks to God for the many years He has given me.
Today, I give thanks for all of you from Our Lady of Peace parish in Manhattan. I will never forget you. You were always 'the wind beneath my wings'.
For us, Our Lady of Peace will always be 'that one brief shining moment of our lives.’

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.“At the right hand of God that his soul was faithful.”Please see the below link for th...
08/07/2022

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

“At the right hand of God that his soul was faithful.”

Please see the below link for the death notice of Fr. Bartholomew Daly, beloved pastor to many, and the last at Our Lady of Peace. His funeral will be live streamed and the link is within the notice. 🙏 RIP

Kenya, New York and formerly of Mountcollins, Abbeyfeale, Limerick / Rathgar, Dublin

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