Posted on 11/29/2021 7:14:19 PM PST by marshmallow
The man who is creating the blueprints for Notre Dame’s makeover, Fr. Gilles Drouin, is a teacher of liturgy and an enthusiastic detractor of the traditional rite.
(LifeSiteNews) — When the London Telegraph published an exclusive story last Friday about the “woke ‘Disney’ revamp” that is being planned for Notre Dame cathedral in Paris after the destruction of its roof and spire by fire on Monday of the Holy Week of 2019, it came as a complete surprise to most. Incredulity was probably the dominant reaction — however, a few days later, the Telegraph’s story, tragically, appears to be only too true. We hadn’t been paying sufficient attention.
The man who is creating the blueprints for Notre Dame’s makeover, Fr. Gilles Drouin, is a teacher of liturgy and an enthusiastic detractor of the traditional rite for whom Traditionis Custodes, which explicitly wants the demise of the Latin Mass, is a welcome text that “puts an end to an exceptional situation”. His comments on the future refurbishing of the interior space of Notre Dame had already shown that his intent is to remodel the way people “participate” in the liturgy. Of which more later …
The British newspaper’s Paris correspondent, Henry Samuel, did not mince his words when describing the “controversial” plans: Notre Dame’s age-old nave and side-chapels will be turned into an “experimental showroom,” “a politically correct Disneyland.” He quoted the reaction of Maurice Culot, a “prize-winning Paris-based architect, urbanist, theorist and critic who has seen the plans:”
“What they are proposing to do to Notre-Dame would never be done to Westminster Abbey or Saint Peter’s in Rome. It’s a kind of theme park and very childish and trivial given the grandeur of the place.”
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Unnngh.
Maybe a European version of Branson.
Hasselhoff, Cliff Richard, Rammstein, Kinks...
Ringo and his All-Star Band.
I’d check it out.
Calling Quasimodo!!!!
At least the Jean-Claude Van Damm Johnson reboot was in good taste.
one of the few I can think of
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6682754/
I’m no longer a believer, but this is so depressing. Do they not have laws regarding historic buildings over there?
Here, I had a friend who grew up in one of the oldest homes in our town; over a century. If the roof needed to be repaired, they had to get permission from the city and it had to be done to certain specifications, which means it was twice as expensive (which was fine; they were loaded).
I’m amazed that the French diocese are okay with this, but then again, it’s France. They’re stereotyped as, “surrender monkeys” for a reason.
better it burned...
I’ll always roll with the Charles Laughton version.
Yes, but it is not for the reason you might suppose.
“France … surrender monkeys”
I’ve heard jokes my entire life about France surrendering so easily and laughed at them. It pains me to say this but it now seems like they have way more people protesting obscene gas prices ( the Yellowvests), vaccine mandates, and other unnatural overreaches of the radical humanists than we in the US do.
Catholic church buildings in France, at least the historic ones, are all owned by the government. The church is merely permitted to use them. One of the many glorious results of the French Revolution! [cough]
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