[NYer]

Ping!

[CodeToad]

” the vitality that flows from firm Catholic identity and its enduring visible expression”

I’ve never agreed with these temples of wealth. I don’t think Jesus would approve of the untold riches used to build them. The poor the church should be serving could better use the resources.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

The common denominator in all this work is The School of Architecture at Notre Dame. One of the only schools with a classically oriented program.

[HarleyD]

I'm glad to see beautiful churches once again.

Exo 28:2 And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers."

John 4:20

[Bigg Red]

Good news here!

[vladimir998]

And then there are the “could have beens”. This church could have been beautiful: http://www.straymond.us/html/photos_1.html It’s an attractive, pleasant space, but... it just isn’t what it could have been.

[narses]

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[AnAmericanMother]

It wasn't entirely a wasteland beforehand -

Our church was built in 1995:

Funny true story: the rector interviewed four architects - three Catholics and a Presbyterian - and asked for preliminary drawings. He specifically asked for a design that was contemporary but incorporated traditional Catholic symbolic elements - cruciform footprint, bell tower, elevated sanctuary, choir loft, etc. Three of the architects didn't listen but just provided the typical Catholic Prayer Barn. The fourth (the Presbyterian) did as instructed. His firm got the bid, and we got a nice Richardsonian Romanesque-Revival church.

. . . and for those griping about the expense - ANY building is going to cost a bundle, unless you go with a prefab steel shed. Might as well lift everyone's souls to God.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Thank you! I look at these buildings and I get a sense of... relief. A pause in the 40-year war on Beauty.

[onedoug]

A little less gold might befit the alter better.

[SuziQ]

Lovely!! I’m glad they’re moving away from the ‘prayer barn’ architecture of the 60s thru the 80s.