Our Lady of Loreto is in jeopardy once again. Justice Ellen Spodek of the state Supreme Court in Brooklyn has denied plaintiff and former parishioner Jillian Mulvihill's motion for a preliminary injunction to halt the demolition of the vacant historic church by Catholic officials.

Catholic Charities Progress of Peoples Development Corp. (POP) plans to tear down the neoclassical Roman Renaissance-style church in the Ocean Hill section of Brownsville and build 40 units of low-income housing on the site. Last March, the city Buildings Department issued demolition permits.