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Besides the moral issues involved (HMBA as you say a waste of funds which could be used for SOCIAL issues that the progs love unless they need the money for something "more important") when "they" do this kind of thing they must have no idea of the scandal they cause to the faithful and I would stake my life that issues like this are part of the reason why a good portion of the 70% of Catholics who don't attend Mass weekly no longer have anything to do with the Church.

Same with McPhoney's Cathedral... millions and millions of dollars spent when there are hungry and sick people on the streets of LA, and then he's quick to cry poormouth and cut services (although part of the chancery staff was cut but you know the cuts weren't directed at his friends). Oh, and I just remembered that he hired a very, very expensive PR firm.

I can't even begin to think about Bishop Sheen's relationship to Sacred Heart Cathedral or I will really wreck my night off from work. Seems like Bishop Clark is trying to obliterate traces of Bishop Sheen.

These people have no business being in positions of decision-making authority in the Roman Catholic Church. They represent an extremist fringe faction - those hell-bent on radical chic neo-modernist "minimalist" architecture, a tacky modern fad promoted by Marxists and left-wing wacko types. Entire books have been written about this, lampooning the absurdities. This is a well-known howler in art and architecture circles. It's absurd in the extreme. It would be like if they ordered the members of the choir to wear pink polyesther pantsuits to Mass. That's about what you are dealing with in many of levels of AmChurch today. It's absurd in the extreme, so far in fact it seems incredibly silly we even have to debate this.

It's a fad in modern AMERICAN bad taste.