Showing posts with label Ugly Churches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ugly Churches. Show all posts

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Did ya miss me?

No, not her. I mean me. Did you miss me?? Of course you did. What a silly question.

I see the Conciliar church has another house of worship under construction. Of course, if one were suspicious, one might question just who (whom?) or what is being worshiped in such houses.

Further, if one were a resident of the Diocese of Oakland, one might almost wish that one's diocese had been forced to declare bankruptcy before such an abomination of desolation could be raised as a blight on the skyline of one's fair city.

You see, you thought that throwing millions of dollars at sleazy plaintiff's lawyers because of the misdeeds of pervert priests was all bad. Not so. It obviously prevents mischief like this being pulled off by liberal chancery rats in said bankrupt dioceses. However, bankruptcy only lasts 7 years. This hideous structure they're raising in Oakland might stand for centuries. Especially since it's been hardened against any divine retribution (or architectural criticism if you prefer) in the form of earthquakes by “friction pendulum double-concave bearing isolators." It might require a tidal wave to take this thing out. I'm just sayin'.

Having said all that, I thought I would create my own motivational poster for those in the USCCB who seem bereft of all common sense and good taste. Don't worry, people. You're winning. Big time. In spite of motu proprios and such like, you're winning. You've isolated us traddys in our own little ghettos. You've co-opted the neos. You've gotten millions spent on modernist trash like the Oakland cathedral. Yes indeed. You've truly managed to sing a new church into being.

Friday, May 25, 2007

In the Spirit of Vatican II


Guess who? Nope, that great big opening in the centre of the abdomen is not a birdhouse and this is not a faceless scarecrow either. It's a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in St. Frances de Sales Church in Muskegon, Michigan, built during the Second Vatican Council.

Oops, someone dropped all their papers! What are those things? Oh, I know, it's an invitation to trample the Stations of the Cross. Do Catholics do that? Of course not, we pray them. But here, kids can use them for hop scotch, and people can walk on top of them. Of course, probably no one actually recognizes them as the Stations of the Cross.

Do you see the twelve Apostles in this picture? Me neither. Apparently those twelve pillars in the sanctuary were built to honour the Apostles, but hey, this is a Spirit of Vatican II church, so who really needs statues, anyway? This New Church has cast off the old beautiful, ancient traditions and calls to a new and dynamic people of God, who are ever willing to embrace new and differing needs and ever ready to move forward into the spirit of modernism.