{"id":103,"date":"2007-07-17T14:25:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2007\/07\/17\/from-wgrzwhat-to-do-with-closed-parishes\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T14:25:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T18:25:34","slug":"from-wgrzwhat-to-do-with-closed-parishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2007\/07\/from-wgrzwhat-to-do-with-closed-parishes\/","title":{"rendered":"From WGRZ…What To Do With Closed Parishes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I found this story by Stefan Mychajliw, Reporter on WGRZ\u2019s website today\u2026interesting read\u2026<\/p>\n

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You might be surprised to hear who decides what happens to churches in the Buffalo Catholic Diocese when they close. It\u2019s not the Diocese.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen parishes merge, it\u2019s up to the new parish community to decide what the future use of these properties will be,\u201d said Diocesan spokesman Kevin Keenan, who adds parishes that stay open will have three options: sell the old buildings, lease them or keep them open.<\/p>\n

2 On Your Side\u2019s Stefan Mychajliw: \u201cWhat steps are being done to ensure that these buildings aren\u2019t just abandoned, or left neglected, or that thieves don\u2019t come in and steal things like the pews, the glass, or the copper? <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s up to the local parish communities to make sure that these properties are secure. They\u2019re given guidelines when the merger is announced regarding how to secure buildings.\u201d <\/p>\n

[read full story and watch video report\u00a0@ WGRZ.COM<\/font><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found this story by Stefan Mychajliw, Reporter on WGRZ\u2019s website today\u2026interesting read\u2026 You might be surprised to hear who decides what happens to churches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-1F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}