 The event organized by parishioner David Pais was originally planned to be held in the school, but so many people attended that it had to be moved to the church.When then-pastor Aldo Tos retired in 2003, the Archdiocese of New York asked the Dominican Order's Province of Saint Joseph, which was already staffing the nearby Catholic Center at New York University, to assume the responsibility of staffing priests for the parish.The result was a merger of the parish with NYU's Catholic Center in December 2003.