[Antoninus]

The story of Mary Magdalen was, no doubt, used by Roger Mahoney to justify his $200 million monstrosity.

Personally, I would have had no problem if he had spent $200 million on the most beautiful cathedral the world had ever seen as a fitting shrine to the One True God as present on the altar in the Holy Eucharist. Instead, he (purposely in my opinion) created a hideous postmodern airplane hangar that bears no resemblance to Church architecture and tradition, and ignores the centrality of the Eucharist to the point of hiding the tabernacle and making a mere table the centerpiece.

Your starting to sound like an 8th century iconoclast. So much for "progress."

[sinkspur]

Personally, I would have had no problem if he had spent $200 million on the most beautiful cathedral the world had ever seen as a fitting shrine to the One True God as present on the altar in the Holy Eucharist.

I would. Excess is excess. Spend $50 million, and take the other $150 million and spread it around to the 235 dioceses so that bishops who've harbored abusers can buy oil and pour it over the feet of the victims.

That would be money well spent, both in its reality and its symbolism.