[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

ArrogantBustard wrote: I can imagine one saying such things of almost any classical style of church, be it Gothic, Renaissance, Byzantine, Mission, etc. Any style except modernist-minimalist-ugly. Most new churches are MMU. It's hard to develop a positive culture, to be shared with the world, around that.

Unfortunately, the people who make decisions about what kind of church building to construct, the building committees and clergy involved, frequently do not have any formal training in Catholic sacred architecture in any sound sense. The construction firms that often are contracted to do the job do not have such training either. When you build enough ugly churches, it becomes a trend. They just keep repeating the same, tired, trite, minimalist formulae. Why any bishop allows that, along with the odious wreckovation, is a strange mystery. They could stop it today, now, if they wanted to. The ridiculously absurd part is that someone thinks modernism is "progressive" or whatever. It's a joke. A well-known joke, lampooned in books and articles by architects and art historians.

[ArrogantBustard]

My parish is in the process of building a mission style church-school complex. The plan is deliberately traditional, not MMU. Please pray that the Lord bless and prosper our efforts.

[maryz]

frequently do not have any formal training in Catholic sacred architecture in any sound sense.

They might be able to get by without formal training if they had the aesthetic sense God gave geese!