Gas container found near fire-gutted church in Gatineau, Que.: police

[PadraigPearce]

Although it’s too soon to tell what motivated it, somebody went and burned down The oldest Catholic Church in Gatineau on Wednesday night. It really was a beautiful Church too, with a huge Casavant Freres pipe organ and a beautiful wooden interior.

cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/06/11/ottawa-cathedral-fire-aylmer.html

 

[foolishmortal]

…and you won’t hear any apologies or outrage by Atheists or other anti-Catholic organizations about doing that kind of thing. It and the topic of anti-Catholic bigotry won’t be on the news (the national kind, anyway) either. In fact, it will probably be suggested the priest molested somebody and that somebody did it.

 

[foolishmortal]

…and you won’t hear any apologies or outrage by Atheists or other anti-Catholic organizations about doing that kind of thing. It and the topic of anti-Catholic bigotry won’t be on the news (the national kind, anyway) either. In fact, it will probably be suggested the priest molested somebody and that somebody did it.

 

[Eucharisted]

I’m sure God permitted it so that the beautiful church could be rebuilt; and just as a building is rebuilt, so too we must be remade in His Image and Likeness, we who are the spiritual stones of the Church.

 

[foolishmortal]

That could be a perspective to add to the former one.

 

[jmcrae]

I’m sure God permitted it so that the beautiful church could be rebuilt; and just as a building is rebuilt, so too we must be remade in His Image and Likeness, we who are the spiritual stones of the Church.

I disagree. I think that a real treasure has been destroyed, here, that simply cannot be replaced.

A Cassavant Freres organ is extremely difficult to replace. If you have never heard one played, you are missing out on an incredible experience. Decent stained glass art is a lot harder to come by these days, too - all of the really good stained glass artists seem to have died. This beautiful church cannot be “replaced” - they will probably build some kind of a air-conditioned shack with modern art, and a piano with extra keyboards and pedals that passes itself off as an “organ”, but the actual church itself - no, not possible.

The technology and expertise for building good churches has been lost to us in this generation.