Posted on 04/17/2019 8:44:46 PM PDT by OddLane
The flames that consumed the spire of Notre Dame and burned the 856-year-old church to its foundations could have been doused by the tears of the faithful. If France heeds calls to rebuild the cathedral as a reflection of what modern “French people want,” the new structure may be flooded by their tears.
The fire, whose origins remain under investigation, was initially reported to have left little more than medieval stones, rose windows, and — make of this what you will — its golden altar cross untouched.
Donations nearing $1 billion have already poured in from around the world, without government compulsion. French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to rebuild the church within five years, a timeline as ambitious (and potentially, as unrealistic) as his plans for the eurozone.
“We will rebuild the cathedral to be even more beautiful,” Macron said...
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Only if there is a revival in France.
I questioned this on another thread today. Notre Dame Cathedral had to have been officially consecrated as a Roman Catholic Church. It still offers Catholic services. Even the alter, and its religious artifacts, like the Crown of Thorns were probably consecrated as well. So in order for to it be used for any other purpose than a Catholic Church, it would have to be deconsecrated. It will be interesting to see how Rome would react to any plan to change it. However, I don’t have any faith in the current Pope to do the right thing.
Who is in charge of it. Rome or France?
It was built by man.
God wanted it.
It will be always the Church of God.
Have faith brother.
God is Great.
God is Great...Amen!
Those whose religion is politics might consider it so. The normal among us know better. And the world is not, thank God, run by associate professors from Toronto.
Wasn’t it built on a Roman temple?
Weird stuff:
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מדינה קטנה חלומות גדולים
= 856
Macron should be asking Catholics if they want it ‘better’.
The situation in France is complicated by the fact that the government confiscated (== stole) all of the church buildings during the revolution, and never gave them back So Notre Dame is government property which the government allows the church to use free of charge. Strictly speaking, if the government wanted to bulldoze Notre Dame and put up a mosque next to a strip club, there is nothing the church can do legally to stop them.
Its a waste of money to do so.
France is not fixing the fundamental problem.
None of europe is.
Since 1905 Notre Dame has been by the French Government. The Catholic Church runs it and pays the staff.
On a previous Notre Dame post I said;
They burned a church
They will rebuild a tourist attraction
It will have a Muslim connection
I hope not a “secular monument”
It was and is a cathedral and needs to stay that.
Thanks for the information. Henry VIII basically did the same thing when he broke with the church in Rome, and ordered the destruction of all Catholic churches, abbeys, cathedrals, and confiscated the land, and wealth therein.
I thought the modern french people want a mosque.
Just wondering why demonic gargoyles would be placed on a “house of worship”? Will these demonic statues be reunited with the reconstruction?
What have statues of baal, moloch, baphomet and the phoenix have to do with Christianity?
The State owns it the church rents it, I read that here so it has to be the fact.
Nobody knows for sure. Some scholars say no. Some scholars say yes.
Regardless, this building must be preserved.
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