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By William Heyer
The renovation of Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Detroit



Remember that you are the guardians of beauty in the world. May that suffice to free you from tastes which are passing and have no genuine value, to free you from the search after strange or unbecoming expressions. Be always and everywhere worthy of your ideals and you will be worthy of the Church which, by our voice, addresses to you today her message of friendship, salvation, grace and benediction...
- Message to Artists, Pope Paul VI. 1

In 1970, the Archdiocese of Atlanta hosted a Worship Congress at which popular liturgical designer Robert Rambusch spoke. In one of his lectures, Mr. Rambusch claimed that "everyone is for church renewal until they see what it looks like, and then they balk. What we are doing is redefining. Who are we as people of God?"2 Mr. Rambusch is a director and fellow of ARC: the Society for the Arts...

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