Would you call this a cathedral?

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jako:
Do really think that a Protestant wouldn’t be caught dead in it? Have you seen the “Crystal Cathedral.”? Or many other edifices that protestants build?
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That’s the point. It’s exactly the sort of hall that protestants build.
 
It’s not that I think all churches should look like Chartres but this particular building looks cold and rather forbidding. It looks like someone didnt’ finish the project and the scaffolding is up. What makes it look like a great celebration of God?

FWIW they think those windows look nice NOW, wait until years of soot, grime and bird droppings ‘grace’ them. We have a glass tower above a building in this city and it looks greasy and grimy. No way to clean it properly and a good rainstorm negates all the hard work. Can’t wait til St Helens blows again and they can figure a way to chip the ash off.
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Richardols:
I agree entirely with your fine analysis. Nevertheless, even as I agree with it, we’re still left with the fact that I like the new Cathedral and you don’t.

We can certainly disagree civilly and in good faith on this one.
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Perhaps, that disagreement is best expressed in the collection box. Clearly, most traditional Catholics who find this design irreverant or gimmicky shouldn’t contribute to its construction or maintenance. Many traditional Catholics have viewed with alarm the steady erosion of our holy places that instilled reverance and awe for God and their exhorbitantly costly replacement by a spread of wreckovations justified by misperceptions of Vatican II (that often result in little more than horizontally-based deconstructionist “gathering places” in which protestants would feel at home). Just as meeting halls and glorified gymnasiums don’t do it for traditional Catholics, neither do amusement park ride skeletal structures that pose as Catholic Cathedrals.
 
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swampfox:
Perhaps, that disagreement is best expressed in the collection box. Clearly, most traditional Catholics who find this design irreverant or gimmicky shouldn’t contribute to its construction or maintenance. Many traditional Catholics have viewed with alarm the steady erosion of our holy places that instilled reverance and awe for God and their exhorbitantly costly replacement by a spread of wreckovations justified by misperceptions of Vatican II (that often result in little more than horizontally-based deconstructionist “gathering places” in which protestants would feel at home). Just as meeting halls and glorified gymnasiums don’t do it for traditional Catholics, neither do amusement park ride skeletal structures that pose as Catholic Cathedrals.
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Amen!!! These gathering place are causing the scattering of the flock.
 
Lisa N:
It’s not that I think all churches should look like Chartres but this particular building looks cold and rather forbidding. It looks like someone didnt’ finish the project and the scaffolding is up. What makes it look like a great celebration of God?

FWIW they think those windows look nice NOW, wait until years of soot, grime and bird droppings ‘grace’ them. We have a glass tower above a building in this city and it looks greasy and grimy. No way to clean it properly and a good rainstorm negates all the hard work. Can’t wait til St Helens blows again and they can figure a way to chip the ash off.
Lisa N
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It does look like a stadium that needs some flags flying from the top of its many poles. Perhaps the olympic flag would be appropriate along with the flags of every country and the Mass could be replaced with the kind of strangely pagan shows that we’ve witnessed in the last few opening and closing olympic ceremonies.
 
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antiaphrodite:
looks like a museum. or maybe a shopping mall?
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Yes it sort of gives me the willies:nope: It does not look like a Cathedral:eek:
 
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Lisa4Catholics:
Yes it sort of gives me the willies:nope: It does not look like a Cathedral:eek:
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isn’t it a bit funny you can see a little inside, and you can’t see any cross?
 
As a member of the Oakland diocese, I don’t consider this new cathedral a trade up from our old cathedral sniff that went down in the earthquake.

However, I’m hoping against hope that it will somehow not be as ugly as the model when it is finally built… but, please, you all, don’t rub it in!
 
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peregrinator_it:
However, I’m hoping against hope that it will somehow not be as ugly as the model when it is finally built…
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me too…as of now, it looks to me like a museum. or a shopping mall.
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peregrinator_it:
but, please, you all, don’t rub it in!
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oops, sorry.:o
 
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