Thursday, July 28, 2011

Silk purse out of sow's ear dept.


                                                   Chartres it ain't

The diocese of Orange has offered $50 million for Robert Schuller's "Crystal Cathedral."  The diocese needs a cathedral and Bishop Tod Brown intends to use the Crystal Cathedral for that purpose.  If the diocese's bid succeeds, their new cathedral will assume a very high place on the list of the world's ugliest Catholic churches, possibly surpassing even Cardinal Mahony's nearby costly concrete cube.  Why would Bishop Brown want such an ugly cathedral?  Thomas Peters offers an answer here.

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