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"Last year the Archdiocese announced a $5.7 fundraising affair to "restore" the 262-year-old church"

"Restoration" was the word used in my parish and I pitched enough fits, I think i convinced a few people that there was no restoration going on.

"Warnings from laymen about the possibility of radical alterations have been met with considerable irritation by cathedral rector Father David Garcia, who publicly charged his critics in the city’s Express News of "a campaign of distortion and misinformation." In a classic posture of denial routinely assumed by those overseeing church renovations, Fr. Garcia has maintained that the historic architecture of San Fernando Cathedral will be preserved and restored. "We’re rearranging furniture, not modernizing the Church," "

Yeah, right. Classic indeed. They've got a PR manual. Has to be. I thought Fr. D just chose the wrong word. Nope. Somewhere there's a written program. This is a national campaign. And the people whohave the "whatever Father wants" paradigm are falling into a trap.

"The U.S. bishops are in the midst of preparing a statement on church architecture (tentatively called Domus Dei), to be discussed and possibly voted on at that bishops’ national meeting in November of 2000. Likewise, the Vatican is preparing to release the third edition of the Roman Missal. Both documents are likely to contradict some of renovation design features highly favored by the archi-liturgical establishment."

What was the outcome of this? This was about the time Rigali ordered all the Tabernacles back to the foot of the Crucifix.

Darn it, I am really loaded up this semester, or I'd jump on this as a project - correct all notions about Vosko. This is crisis and is going to take a massive effort to discredit the movement. But, I think it's possible, if nothing else, to stop the destruction.

This was about the time Rigali ordered all the Tabernacles back to the foot of the Crucifix.

Who is Rigali and is this "order" binding on all parishes? I'm interested because I have an ongoing "discussion" of this with my parish - they say NO and I say Yes, because our Lord should be central to our worship.

Check back later - I'm doing my penance this week by taking my 13 year old daughter and 3 of her friends to the Enrique Ingleses (sp) concert tonight. If I wasn't a Catholic, I'd probably slit my wrists... ;-)