The New Oakland Cathedral
Caelum et Terra today has a less than raving review of the new modernist Oakland Cathedral, and links to this article with photos:C. et T. is correct in saying that "it's true enough that it isn't in God's law that the medieval design must be our pattern for church architecture forever." The new can be effectively combined with the old, as in the neo-Romanesque World Peace Memorial Cathedral (Hiroshima).
From the pictures in the article, it appears that the New Oakland Catherdral has failed to do this. It looks more like a Protestant mega-church than a Catholic cathedral. And this very disturbing photo of the dedication of the cathedral, from the Catholic News Service, shows that something worse than a Protestant mega-church might just be what the diocese intends the cathedral to be:
Caelum et Terra today has a less than raving review of the new modernist Oakland Cathedral, and links to this article with photos:C. et T. is correct in saying that "it's true enough that it isn't in God's law that the medieval design must be our pattern for church architecture forever." The new can be effectively combined with the old, as in the neo-Romanesque World Peace Memorial Cathedral (Hiroshima).
From the pictures in the article, it appears that the New Oakland Catherdral has failed to do this. It looks more like a Protestant mega-church than a Catholic cathedral. And this very disturbing photo of the dedication of the cathedral, from the Catholic News Service, shows that something worse than a Protestant mega-church might just be what the diocese intends the cathedral to be:
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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