The Czech Republic’s Archdiocese of Prague has welcomed pre-Christmas plans to build a major new parish church using 3D printing technology, after architects insisted the method would slash costs and offer exceptional decorative and acoustic possibilities.
Church Design
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Why does the French government—and not the Catholic Church—own Notre-Dame Cathedral?
Notre-Dame, and many churches in France, are owned by the state and merely used by the church. That gave the French government, and President Macron, a big voice in the restoration project.
Posted inFaith, Features
Skateparks, gyms and breweries: The right and wrong way to repurpose a closed church building
The Catholic Church, the largest private real estate owner in the world, faces decisions about what to do with its extensive real estate portfolio.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
‘Succession’ Behind the Scenes: How a Jesuit church (and priest) were cast for a pivotal episode
I enjoyed being in “Succession,” but should our church have been used for this abrasive show?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
$2 million tabernacle stolen and statue beheaded in Brooklyn Catholic church
Police say someone busted into the altar at a New York City church, stole a $2 million gold relic and removed the head from a statue of an angel at some point late last week.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Please don’t turn Notre-Dame into a post-Vatican II cathedral to the modern world
Like many parish churches built in the 1970s and ’80s, the Notre-Dame redesign seems to take its inspiration from sensibilities unique to our own decades, rather than drawing on time-tested understandings of God.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
A light show transforms Montreal’s Basilica of Notre-Dame and shows the beauty of Catholicism to a secular audience
Cathedrals and basilicas have become a part of urban culture and are fertile ground for creatively sharing the faith, as seen in Montreal’s Basilica of Notre-Dame.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The parish parking lot: Too big and too empty, too much of the time
Supersized suburban churches may have no choice but to pour acres of asphalt but there are still ways to use that land more productively.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
‘The cathedral is saved’: Notre Dame two years after the devastating fire
Two years after a fire tore through Paris’ most famous cathedral and shocked the world, French President Emmanuel Macron visited the building site that Notre Dame has become to show that French heritage has not been forgotten despite the pandemic.
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What we lost when Notre-Dame de Paris caught fire
What did Notre-Dame mean? What did it feel like to step into it in the Middle Ages?