[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

How does it happen that American Catholics manage almost always to be held hostage by such con artists peddling trash? You look at this travesty, at Weakland holding Milwaukee hostage for years, at Steinfels and Appleby lecturing at the USCCB meeting in Dallas, at The Vagina Monologues being performed on Catholic campuses, at various parishes throughout the country being wreckovated or taken over by "Gay & Lesbian ministries" while diocesan funds are gutted by the perverted antics of their buddies, it's as if the worst element in the Catholic community calls all the shots and makes the decisions. This has to stop. This has to addressed by the bishops. For any of them to remain silent about this outrageous misuse of church funds is absurd. Hey, there needs to be a document just on wreckovation architecture. When will this long, absurd, ridiculous ordeal with neo-modernist minimalist architecture end? Tom Wolfe was making fun of this over 20 years ago! It's like the bishops never even read. [?]

[Jeff Chandler]

Ugly Is as Ugly does.

[NYer]

Hey, there needs to be a document just on wreckovation architecture.

There is. I'll have to research it.

It's like the bishops never even read. [?]

I believe this falls into the category of "ego". Mahony intentionally disposed of St. Vibiana's Cathedral in order to erect an edifice with his name "attached". Wasn't the original budget set at $50 million? According to this and several other articles, the price tag is now up to $200 million! And, it's not yet completed.

What stuns me are some of these "new age" projects. How about:

Sculptor Max De Moss, who made candleholders and a towering receptacle for consecrated bread and wine, is a member of a Greek Orthodox family.

What is this supposed to be? With Vosko's name attached, I suppose the Tabernacle has either been tossed or relegated to some sub basement room.

[Desdemona]

"How does it happen that American Catholics manage almost always to be held hostage by such con artists peddling trash?"

Because underneath it all, most are just as dumbed down as the rest of America.

[Antoninus]

Have you never heard of Michael Rose?


Ugly as Sin