[Gerish]

I hear it is one of the ugliest structures ever built. Not uncommon for Mahoney!

[NYer]

"Bob had a lot of ideas for the Virgin," Vosko says of Graham. But the initial ones were rejected, including a figure with the infant Jesus at her breast. The version that won approval--a sturdy, simply dressed figure with outstretched hands and a thick braid of hair--is "a new vision of what this woman can be," Vosko says.

I had planned to bold some of the more outrageous design elements but soon discovered that nearly everything was in bold.

Fr. Dr. Dick Vosko, wreckovator of cathedrals, is the same one who consulted on Weakland's atrocity.

[Aunt Polgara]

As much as I agree with the comments here about the new cathedral being a monument to Mahoney's ego, and a truly ugly building (at least from the outside), we need to remind ourselves that the LATimes has sued FR to keep whole articles from being posted.

Is there any way to keep this thread, but take out part of the article?