this one in Huston looks very lovely, but from what I can see on line anyway, I don’t like the stain glass of Christ. 
maybe it would look better in person. 
Are you referring to me? I’ve been to the cathedral in LA and I think it’s beautiful.Let me guess, you two don’t like any of the newer more modern Cathedrals
Can’t please everyone. Christ rising from the tomb over the Houston skyline is pretty cool, and I think the stained glass art is beautiful.this one in Huston looks very lovely, but from what I can see on line anyway, I don’t like the stain glass of Christ.
Are you referring to me? I’ve been to the cathedral in LA and I think it’s beautiful.
Really? I love it as well. I stand corrected, sorryI just got the impression by the posts you two didn’t like the more modern. I was reading too much into words.
Many on here do not like anything modern so I assumed, always a bad idea.
No, I like all kinds of architecture. From the ancient to the modern. There are a lot of modern churches that I find very beautiful (and some I find hideous). The St. Pio shrine/church at San Giovanni Rotundo in Italy is very modern and very beautiful.Really? I love it as well. I stand corrected, sorry
The original co-cathedral was a lovey old parish church but an elevated freeway was built right in front of it in the 60s and the vibrations have literally caused it to begin falling apart. Plus it was way too small for diocesan functions as it only sat about 500 people. They did an engineering study and determined the best solution was a new cathedral. I’ve seen it several times during visits to Houston as it’s progressed and it’s just stunning.Our city recently had the catherdral refurbished, it so beautiful so I know how you feel. You should be very proud.
The original plan called for it to be razed and a parking facility and offices/classrooms/etc erected. I don’t know if that’s still the plan. The old church is structurally unsound.What is going to become of the old co-cathedral building now? Talk about it falling down on someone…seriously.
(My one quibble is with the face of Our Lord in the Sacred Heart window.)Because in addition to being completely inadequate from a seating capacity perspective, the old cathedral has been declared structurally unsound. It’s falling apart.
Basic Texas history. Galveston was originally a population center, a major port and the second most busy immigration entry point into the US behind Ellis Island. Galveston was a thriving city when the first diocese was created in Texas. Of course that was where the original cathedral was built. However, as you know the city was wiped out in the 1900 storm and it never recovered to its former propserity.
No. It is because we needed a space to accomodate the diocesan events, and it makes no sense to build that facility in Galveston when the population is in Houston.
What you say sounds good but it is a known fact or at least it was when I lived there that population growth had nothing to do with the old co-cathedral in downtown Houston is because a past bishop did not like living in Galveston for various reason and “Houston is the population center” had nothing to do with it. Even if what you say is true tell me this retired Archbishop Fiorenza before his Mass in what was called the Summit now Lakewood Church( I add that because I thought it is funny wonder if Joel O knows about that) went to Galveston to the Cathedral and not the co-cathedral, Cardinal Denardo did the same. Just a slight correction to your time guidelines it is an hours’ drive from the front door of the bishops old home in Galveston to the front door of where the Cardinal currently lives unless you do this in rush hour traffic then two to two and half hours unless you in the HOV lane then less than an hour. I know this because I go done to the island for business and visit old friends (I am BOI) near the Bishops Palace and I have a home next door to the Cardinal in west Houston
To this I say, “who cares”. Even if what you say is true for the original reason the old bishop moved up to Houston in the 1960s, that’s within his authority to do.
Huh? Your sentence is a little run-on and confusing.
As I said, Galveston is about an hour away from central/downtown Houston and closer to two hours from the north and west sides. I certainly wasn’t asserting an exact distance or measure of time.