Post pictures of ugly and beautiful churches

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I’ve never learned to post photos, but Milwaukee’s cathedral ‘wreckovated’ by former it’s former archbishop (Weakland) has GOT to be a contender.

The best description I’ve heard for the place is “architectural rape.”
 
In Philadelphia we have the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul.
cathedralphila.org/

You can click on the Virtual Tour right on the home page and a video appears to tell you about it and show you it.

I have yet had the pleasure to visit, but I hope to someday.

Sadly I do not have any pictures of the Church I attend, but it is a very beautiful church.
 
Cathedral in Clifton, Bristol, England:

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And the interior:

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yes, those are plastic chairs. Where has Jesus gone, I wonder???

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Look at it in the midst of its surroundings:

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It is post Vatican II, of course.
 
Farmer88 said:
Here’s the “church” I go to when I’m away at school…

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E4lAUB9N_t4/Se3s1ZhFo4I/AAAAAAAAACQ/4XoTRd462Rw/s400/shrine.jpg

Here’s the 2008 Vigil for Life Mass that I assisted at with the Knights. I was in the Crypt Church for that.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/images/2009a/2008vigilmass.jpg

Do I win?
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Yes, you do! I used to live there, and I got to go back and be at the Vigil Mass for Life this past January and I loved it!!!
 
EzraJacob said:
In Philadelphia we have the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul.
cathedralphila.org/

You can click on the Virtual Tour right on the home page and a video appears to tell you about it and show you it.

I have yet had the pleasure to visit, but I hope to someday.

Sadly I do not have any pictures of the Church I attend, but it is a very beautiful church.
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Quite an impressive cathedral. Also, it’s nice to see continuity in the layout of the sanctuary with the original high altar still used for Mass underneath the baldachin.
 
I need a real camera instead of the camera phone. This has been renovated several times since I was in high school. St. John’s Cathedral. The inside walls used to be very ornately painted.
 
GIR said:
Here are pictures of the parishes I’ve attended for any length of time. First up is Prince of Peace. It looks pretty standard for the time it was built. To my knowledge it’s the largest parish in the archdiocese of Galveston/Houston, maybe in the state.
http://http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/41316_10150257764965335_199640365334_14535132_6225382_n.jpg

Next up is Saint Mary’s in College Station. I assisted hear for several years before discovering another parish nearby that had an earlier mass. The earliest offered here was 9am, which was very inconvenient for me. I grew up going to 7:30, and even 7am for several years.

http://www.aggiecatholic.org/pictures/CD10 -Gospel reading.jpg

And here is Our Lady’s in Austin. It’s a Maronite parish If I can manage to get a job in Austin, this is where I’ll be going

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aNNwA4eTf...c/TDIgvm8datk/s400/Our+Ladys+Maronite+009.jpg

This is Thomas Aquinas, where I ended up my last 2 years in college. This is the most orthodox latin rite church I’ve been to. Meaty homilies, organ music, occasionally Latin. I even heard there was a movement to start a Latin Mass

http://3547.voxcdn.com/photos/18/34/233618_s.jpg
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GIR,

I grew up at St. Thomas Aquinas, went to college at TAMU and attended St. Mary’s where I met my wife. Then we settled down in College Station and are now attending St. Thomas (again). The organist there is a musical prodigy (Alex Hlavinka), and maybe that Latin you heard was my men’s Gregorian chant group, the Brazos Valley Schola Cantorum. We’ve sung at St. Mary’s, too.

While the parish is very orthodox, the architecture is very “Vosko” (google it if you want a scare). The two redeeming factors are the pipe organ and the fact that it faces true east. The parishioners shelled out some bucks for a parish expansion (activity center, playground, RE wings, and an Adoration Chapel). The pastor at the time was (and is) a dear friend of mine, and he told me the parishioners demanded that the chapel be well-done…intimating that the main church was not.

If I had to pick, the best church in Texas is O.L. of Corpus Christi:
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/33256089.jpg
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/33256097.jpg

If you’re in Corpus, be sure and hit the Traditional Latin Mass here. An FSSP priest offers it, and it is oh-so-beautiful with the architecture, music, and solemnity.
 
Um, that is really scary. What you don’t seem to see in the moon she is standing on. That is an image of the maiden aspect of the moon. Trust me, I would know, I was a pagan for the last 19 years. If you were to show that to any pagan they would get it right away. :eek:
 
Speedypizza said:
Um, that is really scary. What you don’t seem to see in the moon she is standing on. That is an image of the maiden aspect of the moon. Trust me, I would know, I was a pagan for the last 19 years. If you were to show that to any pagan they would get it right away. :eek:
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What post are you talking about?
 
Farmer88 said:
What post are you talking about?
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He’s talking about post number #12 I believe. I agree with him. The person that posted it agrees that it’s sad too. That’s my interpretation of what I see.
 
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