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LA's New Cathedral Can't Get Out of the Box By Michael S. Rose |
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They call it a cathedral. It sure doesn't look like one.
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(LOS ANGELES, California) — It has been applauded as a "landmark of remarkable architectural intelligence" by some and derided by others as a "concrete monstrosity." Yet most critics are evaluating the new Los Angeles cathedral according to the canons of modernist architecture--i.e., what the building says about itself.
But how does Our Lady of the Angels measure up as a Roman Catholic cathedral? After all, the 11-story edifice is not a government building, a museum or a bank. It is meant to be a sacred structure charged with transmitting the truths of the Catholic faith to current and future generations. It is meant to evangelize, to inspire and to beckon. It is meant, above all, to be a house of God wrought in the fashion of heavenly things. Unfortunately, Cardinal Roger Mahony's new center of Catholicism for Los Angeles does little of that...
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