This is what the Church-going Catholics are contributing toward with their donations? The LA building/complex is a mega-sized conventional hall. The Crystal “Cathedral” is a gigantic monument to unstained glass. Yes, glass! — 10,000 rectangular panes of it in fact. Then we have the word “cathedral.” Cathedra is a Greek word that means “chair,” or “seat of one in authority.” Why then did Robert Schuller call his glass box a “Cathedral”? His “Reformed Protestant Church” doesn’t believe in priests or bishops. Well, one cannot expect to find logical reasons for the religious things televangelists of heterodoxy do; on the other hand they are extremely adept and logical when it comes to raising money. Perhaps, the Reverend felt his Garden Grove “cathedral” was kind of a primatial “See” for his gelatinous brand of saccharine Christianity.
It is quite revealing that one of the things a spokesman for the Orange. California, diocese said would have to be accounted for in reforming the interior of the glass monument for Catholic worship was a spot for the “president’s chair.” Once dogmas of the Faith are left to wither and dry from dissolution, indifference, or false ecumenism, then the liturgy will also be changed to accommodate the new homocentric-oriented theology, and then the music, art, and architecture will follow the lead losing the beauty that ought to complement the sacred.
California Catholic Daily: A photo of the Orange diocese’s newly acquired Crystal Cathedral was used by an Italian daily to illustrate a Nov. 21 story about the creation of a new Vatican commission that will “crack down” on architectural abuses. More on this here.
