Commentary: Transfiguration of Our Lord Catholic Church was once home to thousands of families. It gives way now to $1 million single-family homes.
Opinion content—editorials, columns and guest commentaries—is created independent of news reporting and is exclusive to subscribers.Demolition of Transfiguration of Our Lord Catholic Church in the Lincoln Square neighborhood takes place on June 13, 2023.
“My parents are going to vote for Michael Dukakis,” she said matter-of-factly as we waited for Mrs. Maglaras, the school secretary, to open the front door of our school to let us in. “He’s going to win because he’s Greek.”Who else could it be but Dukakis? Barbara wasn’t the only one — Ari, Cindy, Nick, Jerry, all their parents were voting for him too. From my vantage point, Dukakis would have won in a landslide had the election been held at the corner of Carmen and Rockwell.
The Poles came and got a little money together, then scattered, some to other parts of the city and a few to the ’burbs. Then the Greeks came. Same story. The Mexicans and the South and Central Americans and the Filipinos told their friends, and they told their friends to go to the smallest church in the neighborhood. They’d be welcome. Transfiguration was one of the first churches in the area to do a Mass in Spanish for the newly arrived. Eventually, they added a mass in Tagalog.
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