At one time the largest Roman Catholic church in Hudson County, it has since become home to a Presbyterian congregation while part of the grounds are used for housing and education.

At one time its walls were adorned by artwork by Hildreth Meière, until rain damage prompted their removal from public view.

[9] The monastery continued to serve the predominantly Irish, German, Italian, and Hispanic community as a local seminary and residence for church clergy.

[9] This came to an end beginning in 1980, when the monastery closed,[3] followed by the closure of the entire complex in 1981 as a result of declining parish enrollments, fewer seminarians in classes and the lack of sufficient finances needed to pay for the site's increasing mounting maintenance costs.

[9][14] Following a 1984 fire,[3] the owners attempted to sell the property, which at the time was the last undeveloped major parcel of land in Union City, to a commercial developer interested in building a shopping center, but the city blocked this endeavor by rezoning the six-square-block site for single-family residential development.

[23][24] In 2014 Preservation New Jersey (PNJ) added the church to its "Ten Most Endangered Historic Places in New Jersey" list, due to the deterioration that has begun due to the structure's age, and the inability of the Korean Presbyterian congregation that had been using it since 1986, which consists of less than 100 members as of 2011, to raise the money needed to repair it.

[3] In addition to the decay that had already suffered by the building by the time the church was purchased in 1984, rain had damaged the artwork by Hildreth Meiére that adorned the walls, which is no longer viewable by the public.