The Globe and Mail

If the organ at St. Michael's Cathedral worked, it would play the blues. But the organ is silent. It is covered in plastic and awaits restoration. This is the least of the Gothic Revival church's problems. The $4-million that church officials recently spent on fixing the foundations was the minimum required to keep St. Michael's from sagging and teetering. An additional $35-million or so is required to repair and restore the rest of the sadly deteriorated building, says John McGrath, 64, the former investment banker -- Catholic, of course -- who is chancellor of temporal affairs for the Archdiocese of Toronto. But the diocese doesn't have the money to save the architecturally significant -- and historically important -- building, and doesn't exactly know how to get it.