{"id":14311,"date":"2014-01-27T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=14311"},"modified":"2014-01-27T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:59:10","slug":"buffalo-news-take-it-from-the-vatican-saving-st-anns-is-a-collective-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2014\/01\/buffalo-news-take-it-from-the-vatican-saving-st-anns-is-a-collective-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo News – Take it from the Vatican: Saving St. Ann\u2019s is a collective responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2587a185-7d19-e011-9264-00237de2db9e\"(By Colin Dabkowski \u2013 Buffalo News) \u00a0There are times when it pays to take a step back, take a breath and consider the long view.<\/p>\n

For the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, which has been on a misguided campaign to erase an important architectural and cultural landmark from Buffalo\u2019s streetscape since 2012, that time is now.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, a tenacious group of former parishioners from St. Ann\u2019s Church and Shrine on Broadway won an important legal battle, when a Vatican court\u00a0decreed<\/a>\u00a0that the church could not be deconsecrated \u2013 a demotion in religious status that would have allowed the diocese to demolish it.<\/p>\n

The decree from the Vatican, which knows a little something about the importance of preserving churches as\u00a0cultural and architectural treasures<\/a>, should have given pause to the Diocese of Buffalo. At minimum, it should have caused local Catholic leaders to reconsider their plan to tear down the priceless 1886 structure, which grew out of a\u00a02013 analysis<\/a>\u00a0that put the cost of repairing the building at as high as $12.4 million.<\/p>\n

Read full story<\/a>\u2014><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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