House of Worship

Our Lady Of Pompeii Church was built in 1926 by the Italian American community of the South Village and is located at the intersection of Carmine and Bleecker Streets.  This is the third site for the church founded in 1892 by Rev Pietro Bandini of the Missionaries of St. Charles, or Scalabrinians.  The Missionaries were founded by Bishop Scalabrini of Piacenza, Italy in 1887 to care for the Italian Immigrants who were migrating to the "New World".  Along with the missionaries he sent Mother Cabrini who worked at the church for awhile.  Because the Italians in New York were outnumbered by the Irish within the Catholic church their communities built their own houses of worship.  Besides Our Lady Of Pompeii they also built St. Anthony of Padua in the south village.  Well known in the area is Father Demo who worked at the church for 35 years and was pastor at the time of the "shirtwaist factory fire".  Many of his parishioners perished in the fire and so he worked to change the conditions in the city's factories.

And from today's Times a different Sunday sermon; the political take on the Golden Rule.
In an article about the unlikely power duo of Mayor Bloomberg and former President Clinton joining forces for a greener planet it is reported that Bloomberg's financing of an organization that Clinton founded has gotten him chairmanship of the organization.  One of Clinton's staffers said "'What are we going to do, fight him?  They have the money; the golden rule applies.'  As in, he who has the gold, rules."