So now it will become a real cathedral.
Full story ...
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-crystal-cathedral-20111118,0,5862736,full.story
This is a good story. Thank God it won’t become a mosque!
>>In the end, Schuller himself gave his blessing to what once would have seemed unthinkable: the conversion of his sleekly modern masterpiece in Garden Grove, a place where fresh breezes blow through open walls and church services feature talk-show-style interviews, into a Catholic cathedral redolent of incense and ancient ritual.<<
Like strangling babies with rosary beads and all that....
Ah the secular media!
it will be easy to fill it up with mexicans.
2) The catholic church has way too much in the way of assets and liquidity.
Thank goodness it’s not in my diocese.
Since it’s not my diocese, I suppose it’s none of my business. But I must say I think it’s a dreadful waste of money on a piece of modernist schlock.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the current Cathedral in Orange County, wondering if they are trading something beautiful in for this thing. But a look at the Holy Family Cathedral website suggests that it, too, is a modernist piece of schlock. In fact, it is even worse looking than this thing.
would have made a hell of a good casino...
This is really stupid.
Uh oh. There goes the neighborhood.
On a serious note, this building seems a little out there, style wise, than what I am accustom to with the Catholic church. I guess it is a Cali thing.
I didn’t realize that this was a building of such architectural importance, designed by Phillip Johnson, Richard Neutra and Richard Meier.
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Remember Captain Wrona (which means 'Crow', hence the slogan 'Fly like an eagle land like a Crow'), who on the 1st of this month was forced by a mechanical malfunction to land a Boeing 767 in Warsaw on its belly, saving the lives of 230 passengers and crew?
One of the passengers on the flight, which originated in Newark, NEW JERSEY (which should have been enough of a warning! Noo Joizey! Sheesh!) was a priest named Fr. Piotr Chyła, who was carrying the late Pope John Paul II's relics, said to have been two of his hairs.
This led many of the faithful in Poland to ascribe the "miraculous" safe landing to a holy intervention by the late Pope.