Supersized suburban churches may have no choice but to pour acres of asphalt but there are still ways to use that land more productively.
Church Design
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‘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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
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?
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Ten ways to up your parish bulletin design (so people will actually read it)
Most parish bulletins look like someone’s junk drawer, writes Angelo Jesus Canta, but there are easy ways to make them more inviting to readers.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Notre-Dame Cathedral restoration begins amid disagreements
Msgr. Patrick Chauvet, the rector and archpriest of Notre-Dame, would like to restore the cathedral exactly as it had been before the fire. That would mean recreating the great wooden attic, nicknamed “the forest,” that was consumed in the blaze.
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How a ‘green’ church in Toronto teaches theology through design
The daily light show at St. Gabriel’s in Toronto is not just aesthetically moving, writes Dean Dettloff. It is part of a church design that reminds us of human dependence on the earth.
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Orange Diocese’s Christ Cathedral ‘becomes reality’ with dedication Mass
The celebration gala came ahead of the July 17 dedication of Christ Cathedral. Following a reception on the campus’ South Plaza, attendees filed into the cathedral where many got a first look at the completely renovated cathedral.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Catholic Church architecture in the 20th century
Catherine Osborne has produced a significant study of changing tastes in the construction of American Catholic churches between 1925 and 1975.
Posted inFaith, Features
What would a chapel on the moon look like? Catholics in the ’60s had some ideas.
The November 1967 issue of Liturgical Arts presented architectural drawings, conceptual essays and theological reflections on the topic “A Chapel on the Moon: 2000 A.D.”
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The West’s debt to Notre Dame
In the wake of the fire, perhaps today’s “cultured despisers” of religion will come to appreciate how devotion to Notre Dame has been a wellspring of Western civilization as we know it.