Posted on 07/07/2011 1:57:19 PM PDT by NYer
A new and intriguing prospect for the Crystal Cathedral emerged Wednesday when the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange said it was considering buying the bankrupt church in Garden Grove and converting it to a Catholic cathedral.
The announcement by Orange Bishop Tod Brown came one day after Chapman University made a $46-million bid for the 40-acre site. The Crystal Cathedral had earlier reached a tentative agreement for a sale and lease-back deal with a real estate developer, subject to approval by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Kwan.
A sale to the Catholic Church would solve a longstanding problem for the Orange Diocese, which has no central cathedral for its 1.2-million parishioners. It has been planning for more than a decade to build a new, 2,500-seat cathedral in Santa Ana, but has gotten only as far as hiring an architect.
The Crystal Cathedral, designed by the late Philip Johnson, would provide an instant, 3,000-seat architectural landmark at roughly half the $100 million that was previously estimated for the Santa Ana project.
Such a deal, however, presumably would mean the end of the Crystal Cathedral Ministry's tenure on the site — a hard pill for the founding pastor, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, and the church board to swallow. The bids by both Chapman University and the real estate developer, Greenlaw Partners, would allow Crystal Cathedral ministries to lease back portions of the site, including the cathedral itself.
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What/who are these pigs you speak of? Don’t be wuss - speak up!
I know what the RCC teaches. That’s why I left them with their man made teachings/catechism!
There is ONLY ONE source of TRUTH - JESUS, THE WORD.
Jesus answered, “I am The Way and The Truth and The Life. No one comes to The Father except through Me”.
No thanks - I have all I need. Now answer the question!
Okay. I don’t think the Orange Diocese should bid on the Chrystal Cathedral.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76ohvqwsNkk&feature=related
***The “Crystal Cathedral” would at least be far more beautiful than Our Lady of the Angels, the headquarters for the Los Angeles diocese, which is an ugly and atrocious eyesore****
It must be so bad even the computer won’t show it! All I see is a box with a red X in it!
Oh, that. They are the pigs with which I do not wrestle.
****The Crystal Cathedral is a multi-million dollar eyesore. Think Supermans Fortress of Solitude meets Las Vegas****
It was designed to win some archetectural prize. It was beaten out by the little THORNCROWN CHAPEL in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Well, I see you are still having a problem producing a scriptural reference for your statement. That said, God is the author of Sacred Scripture. The Catholic Church teaches that the Holy Ghost dictated the words to the sacred authors. The Bible is the infallible Word of God. God determines what is inspired. The Bible is God's book. If God determined the canon of Scripture (which He did), then how did He let us know about it? The answer is that He did it through His Church. If you study history, you see that the canon was determined by the Catholic Church at regional councils in Rome, Hippo and Carthage in 382, 393 and 397 A.D. Even Protestants admit this history.
I await your response to my question.
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Or ... it was conceived by someone with stock holdings in Windex Corp.
still hard to admit that your cult declares the bible to NOT be the word of God, eh?
the taqqiyah tactics of your cult and it's denial of the divinity of Christ and the Holy Spirit show it for what it is
Who are you to demand anything? You don't even tell anyone which non-Christian cult you go to. Admit that first before attacking Christianity
Careful, Judy, li’l piggy-wiggys get riled and going oink-oink-oink
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