{"id":13474,"date":"2013-08-19T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=13474"},"modified":"2013-09-13T23:11:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T03:11:20","slug":"saint-anns-must-be-saved-not-razed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2013\/08\/saint-anns-must-be-saved-not-razed\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Ann’s Must be Saved not Razed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n(click on images to view album \u2013 photos from yesterday)<\/a><\/p>\n

Drive down Broadway from downtown to the city line of Buffalo and it\u2019s not hard to notice the number of vacant lots where buildings once stood. \u00a0This iconic Buffalo street has seen its share of losses over the last three decades. \u00a0Broadway now faces another loss\u2026a huge loss. \u00a0The Buffalo Diocese announced yesterday that it plans to raze Saint Ann\u2019s Roman Catholic Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saint Ann\u2019s has been a fixture on Broadway since the 1800s<\/a>.\u00a0The church is a living link back to the Broadway corridor\u2019s rich Eastern European immigrant heritage and history. The German immigrants gave Buffalo Saint Ann\u2019s. \u00a0A church similar to the ones you see throughout Europe.\u00a0It is a testament to the great melting pot of both Buffalo and America.<\/p>\n

We have to save Saint Ann\u2019s. \u00a0There should be no question about it. \u00a0The East Side has lost a lot. \u00a0Losing Saint Ann\u2019s will further empty Broadway and be a kick in the face to the proud people who still support the church.<\/p>\n

In April of 2012, the Buffalo Diocese put up a fence around the church. \u00a0Their claim was that the building was in danger of collapsing. \u00a0Since then, the Saint Ann\u2019s community has not been allowed in the church and has been holding Mass in the church\u2019s former school or in the grotto behind the church. \u00a0A core group of Saint Ann\u2019s supporters have been working on a plan for restoration and fixing some of the problems with the church structure. \u00a0I spoke with a few people with the church and they were shocked when\u00a0Fr. Roy Herberger read the notice to them on Sunday about the decision to demolish the church. \u00a0It was just about two weeks ago they were told by the diocese to go ahead and start their own engineers and architects report. \u00a0This report would have outlined the manner in which repairs were to be made to Saint Ann\u2019s under the parishioners plans.<\/p>\n

Though I won\u2019t speculate why the diocese decided to pull the plug and go ahead with plans to raze the church, there does appear to be something not right in the way they handled the situation and pushed its supporters out of the way.<\/p>\n

The supporters of Saint Ann\u2019s assured me they are going to fight. \u00a0The larger Buffalo community needs to join this fight. We need to stand side-by-side with them to make sure Saint Ann\u2019s is saved.<\/p>\n

In the coming days and week, the Saint Ann\u2019s community will update what their intentions are and how we can support them.<\/p>\n

We have to save Saint Ann\u2019s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Update: Saint Ann\u2019s Meeting Wednesday<\/a>\u2014><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(click on images to view album \u2013 photos from yesterday) Drive down Broadway from downtown to the city line of Buffalo and it\u2019s not hard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13475,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"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":[6,1,7,623],"tags":[150,106,172,93],"class_list":["post-13474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alive-multimedia","category-news","category-alive-churches","category-b-f-preservation","tag-saint-anns-buffalo","tag-saint-anns-church","tag-saint-anns-church-and-shrine","tag-saint-anns-church-buffalo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fullscreen-capture-8192013-11450-PM.jpg?fit=406%2C542&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-3vk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474","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=13474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}