Changing Faiths at the Crystal Cathedral

The Los Angeles Times ^ | 9/13/13 | Rick Rojas

[marshmallow]

Once the symbol of a congregation founded by Robert Schuller, the cathedral is now part of a church with rites and traditions that span centuries.

Towering like the Emerald City, the cathedral formerly known as Crystal sits at what might be Orange County's nucleus, a trinity of confluencing freeways, the Angels and Ducks stadium and a glimpse of a sacred place of a different kind — Disneyland

From that gleaming sanctuary, evangelist Robert Schuller delivered sermons that were beamed to television sets around the world. His ministry became synonymous with the megachurch, designed so the light and the breeze could stream through, a grand replica of his humble beginnings preaching on the roof of an Orange drive-in's snack shop.

The Crystal Cathedral was to Schuller what Graceland was to Elvis. Now it has been bought by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, which has long coveted having a cathedral that sat at the center of its vast footprint of 1.2 million Catholics.

The name has already been changed to the Christ Cathedral. But the work of liturgical consultants, priests and architects to transform a temple so closely identified as a symbol of Schuller's sunny, uniquely Southern Californian theology into one that conforms to the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church has just begun.

"The exterior will always be the Crystal Cathedral, at least for a while," said Duncan Stroik, a professor of architecture at Notre Dame and editor of the publication Sacred Architecture Journal. "Catholic on the inside, but kind of Protestant on the outside."

Those who have taken on the project recognize that their assignment is a intimidating one, but they also have faith:

They can turn the Crystal Cathedral into the Christ Cathedral.

[Dutchboy88]

Perhaps you'll also notice that your citations are from dictionaries which provide self-proving answers. That is, you do not cite the Scriptures to prove your point, but other English sources which have no relationship to the Greek texts. There were no cathedrals in the first century gatherings; the believers were happy to meet in homes, market places, and river sides. The edifices created by Rome are simply self-aggrandizing structures more aptly related to the egos of men.

Recall, Jesus said the time was coming when we would not worship in this mountain or that, but in Spirit and truth. And, that time is here.

[terycarl]

the Catholics are members of one of the Christian denominations in America.

is that a new rule of grammer that you made up yourself? When the Catholic Church was the ONLY Christian Church on Earth, for those 1,600 or so years, did she declare that she was the only denomination??, probably not. However when the revolution took place, there had to ba a way to "name" all the new groups and so they were nominated, that is, named....Lutheraans, Methodists, Calvinists, Baptists....see, they were named so you could tell the different ways that they were not Catholic.

[ansel12]

Encyclopedias and Catholic serving publications and the rest of us all know the Catholic denomination as one of the Christian denominations.

What you or Mormons consider insider teachings for yourselves within your church doesn’t interest me and the people who don’t belong to your denomination, or in the case of Mormons, their religion.