Not Crystal Clear

Sometime you just got to let a story breath first before commenting.

A new and intriguing prospect for the Crystal Cathedral emerged Wednesday when the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange said it was considering buying the bankrupt church in Garden Grove and converting it to a Catholic cathedral.

The announcement by Orange Bishop Tod Brown came one day after Chapman University made a $46-million bid for the 40-acre site. The Crystal Cathedral had earlier reached a tentative agreement for a sale and lease-back deal with a real estate developer, subject to approval by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Kwan. [Source]

Obviously Bishop Tod Brown in his last year as bishop has wondered just what he could get for the incoming bishop.  Though I can imagine the incoming bishop saying “Thank you, but you shouldn’t have. I mean you really shouldn’t have”  I guess Bishop Brown was just having crystal envy from Oakland’s Cathedral.  Though pursuing Robert Shuller sounds more like an idea conceived using crystal meth.

The Cathedral of Christ the Light come under the direction of Bishop John Cummins and dedicated under Bishop Vigneron and I really feel for Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone who is stuck with it today.

Though I guess there is an upside if the they acquire the Crystal Cathedral.  There could advertise hour blocks of Eucharistic Adoration as  the “Hour of Power” – well maybe not.   It does though have one of the largest piper organs in the world – which I am sure the bishop would strip out and replace with a piano.

I have it on good authority that the Crystal Cathedral is not the only building they are pursuing to use as a Cathedral.  In fact I hear there are talks with Superman to acquire the Fortress of Solitude if it happens to be within the geographical bounds of the Diocese of Orange California.

Oh well, as a palette cleanser look at the propose new Cathedral of Pristina – now that is more like it.