National Trust for Canada has recently released a report projecting that out of some 27,600 current church buildings a full 1/3 will be closed or
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Notre-Dame 2.0
The pertinent question for church heritage is communio, not modification.
Read moreDiocese of Rome Insists – The Paschal Triduum belongs in parishes.
On 1 March, the Diocese of Rome, clarified that the Easter Triduum, and especially the Easter Vigil, are to be celebrated in parishes; Not in
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An Altar by any Other Name
Multivalent liturgy requires multivalent art and architecture.
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The Myth of Noble Simplicity
Liturgical clarity does not mean artistic simplicity.
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A Church of Color
The goal is not to decorate, but to invest sacred places once again with the significance of color.
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Good taste, bad taste, no taste: Liturgical Art and Architecture in a time of cultural exhaustion.
Rather than listen to specialists, we have mob-opinion and crowdsourced culture.
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Ad sanctos – Believing in the Saints Again
In the West we have done a poor job understanding and teaching the Communion of Saints.
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Church of the Holy Sepulcher closed until further notice
“This reminds us all of the laws of a similar nature which were enacted against the Jews during dark periods in Europe”
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The Spiritual Lives of Our Young. Kyrie Eleison.
Perhaps we need to be emboldened to call “B.S.” like the Parkland students on our shallow religiosity.
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