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Church Renovator Thrives on Manipulation Skills

By Michael S. Rose
Fr. Richard Vosko employs his cookie-cutter renovation program to remodel traditional churches into 'non-church' assembly halls.



"The incompleteness of the Reformation in terms of architecture was no doubt the result of the longevity of architecture. Buildings stand, and are not easily removed or changed. The ‘houses of God’ from medieval times continued to stand, continued to assert themselves as "hoses of God" because of their strong ecclesiastical character and continued to teach the people around them that there ought to be such a place as a ‘house of God.’" –Edward A. Sovik, Architecture for Worship, 1973

Father Richard Vosko, Ph.D., a priest of the Diocese of Albany, has been making a comfortable living for the past 29 years, travelling the United States and Canada—parish by parish—promoting his liturgical indoctrination program for the renovation of traditional Catholic churches as well as for the design of new Catholic churches...

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