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Renovating or Ruining the Cathedrals? By Michael S. Rose |
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US cathedrals are fast becoming popular targets for "renovations" that strip them of
their original charm and making them objects of liturgical fads.
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Publication date: October 15, 2001
Milwaukee; Detroit; San Antonio; New Orleans; Memphis; Charleston; Kansas City, Kansas; Grand Rapids; Covington, Kentucky; St. Petersburg; Colorado Springs; Lafayette, Indiana; Honolulu—these are just some of the US dioceses now renovating their cathedral churches. Others like Houston, Oakland, Laredo, and most notably, Los Angeles are in the process of building new cathedrals. We are in the midst of a renovation blitz.
Father Carl Last, former head of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions and director of the planned renovation for St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in Milwaukee, told cathedral parishioners in June that twenty cathedrals in the US are presently being renovated...
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