Tuesday, November 22, 2011

IS IT TOO LATE?
THE VATICAN PROPOSES AN ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTION



It has been reported that the Vatican is establishing a commission under the umbrella of the Congregation for Divine Worship (CDW) to promote sacred art, sacred music and church architecture in various dioceses throughout the world.


One might describe the latter part of the 20th Century as the
"Age of Ugliness" in Catholic church architecture, so it is hardly surprising that CDW prefect Cardinal Canizares Llovera describes the creation of this committee as "very urgent."


Indeed, we have an entire generation that has grown up with a confused liturgy that has been further confused by what Vatican journalist Andrea Tornielli describes as "avant-garde constructions that look like anything but a church. These buildings composed of cement cubes, glass boxes, crazy shapes and confused spaces, remind people of anything but the mystery and sacredness of a church."

This is not an exaggeration. The photos speak for themselves:

"CEMENT CUBES"





"GLASS BOXES"






"CRAZY SHAPES"

"CONFUSED SPACES"





The commission will do more than simply "recommend" any particular type of architecture. It will have the judicial power of the Congregation for Divine Worship to act.


How unfortunate that this commission did not exist a few weeks ago. Perhaps it could have stopped the Diocese of Orange's outgoing bishop, Tod Brown, from making the most embarrassing and permanent blunder of his tenure, the purchase of Robert Schuller's "Crystal Cathedral" in Garden Grove to use as the Diocese's new cathedral.


THIS IS NOW A CATHOLIC CHURCH?


Sadly, many of these monstrously hideous relics of "secular Godlessness gone churchy" will be with us for generations. That is, unless the CDW implements the final solution. Let us pray that they do:





















5 comments:

  1. Oh please, let me wake up one fine morning and discover the Crystal Cathedral was hit by an earthquake and turned into shards of broken glass!

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  2. scotju,

    I hope they level it and build a romanesque Catholic church.

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  3. I doubt Schuller's insurers (and you know he had to have them) would have let him build that thing unless it was earthquake-proofed in the best possible way. It will probably have to be demolished.

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  4. This blog is the saddest thing I have ever read, and only because of your ignorance.
    Architecture is a beautiful thing, you should embrace the fact that creativity is being integrated with religion, and replacing dull, old fashioned and out dated mid-ages structures.

    Peace.

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    1. Reply to Anonymous Mar 19 2012

      This blog is one of the "greatest' blogs available to the "truth".

      This "creativity" you are speaking about is nothing but diabolical. They have stripped our FATIH not only from the laws that Jesus Christ left us but "anything attached to it".

      This is a "masonic way" along with the "tables" being used in the altar, to destroy, strip, and completely wipe out any trace of our beautiful Traditional Catholic Faith. The statues, the liturgy, the "protestant" services, the dress code of women who enter the house of God, etc., has been liberalized, turned protestant, turned to liberation theology, and most important turned against God.

      Take your head out of this world and maybe, just maybe you will be able tos ee what I am talking about.

      Catholic Female

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