Albertus Minimus notes a show in England called Demolition which is the opposite of a preservation society where people nominate buildings that should be destroyed. He then ponders a Catholic equivalent and asks readers to send in suggestions and pictures if possible. I bet you could easily sell tickets to watch an implosion of the L.A. Cathedral. You could even raise money for a new church by auctioning of opportunities to plant the necessary RDX charges. You auction off each charge and possibly front row seats.
This would be my entry.
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Brilliant! While we’re at it, any modernistic Catholic Church that fails to install kneelers (I would not have believed it if I hadn’t been in one!) should also be marked for demo.
HEH . . . One can only dream.
Instead of demolishing the LA Cathedral, how about converting it to low-income housing. After all, the exterior looks like some improvement of “the projects”.
BMP
I saw the picture before I read the entry. You got my bloody hopes up, man!
hahaha, i so agree… i’m sure i could think of a few more buildings to add. 😉
$200,000,000 worth of improvement.
It is with great sadness that I admit I attend a Catholic church that doesn’t have kneelers. Apparently it’s because it’s only a ‘temporary Church’ and the real church will be built in another ten years. That’s no excuse in my opinion. I grew up in a parish with communion rails so going from that to padded chairs and no kneelers is hard to deal with.
It’s funny you should mention that program, because Cacciaguida and I were saying the other day that the ultimate Big Birthday (50th, perhaps) event party for a man would be a demolition. You’d arrange to have the party in the observation area at a demolition site, with the cooperation of the demolition company. There would lots of great food and music, souvenir T-shirts for the guests, and then everybody would sing Happy Birthday and the honoree would press the button to set off the charges. Wouldn’t most men love to have a birthday party like that?
Better make sure the Blessed Sacrament is safely removed from the church before blowing it up — that is, if the church still reserves the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle.
=)
I still don’t see what’s wrong with it. Maybe a few things could be changed in the sanctuary, but I don’t think it’s that bad compared to other places i’ve seen.
If you have the faith the size of a mustard seed, you can move mountains (or the L.A. cathedral, at least)