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To: Desdemona
A friend described to me enthusiastically a visit made with her Catholic women's group to a magnificent Hindu temple — the decorations, the grandeur, the formalities to be observed. They had been careful to dress appropriately and to observe any rituals required of them. They were intrigued by the meanings of the various things they saw.

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.

7 posted on 07/10/2003 5:53:32 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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To: ArrogantBustard
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.

68 posted on 07/10/2003 2:10:16 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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