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Here is the new basilica to be built at Fatima. This is the one that is rumored to become an interfaith shrine.

My Portuguese is not great yet, and my Azorean wife isn't here to translate, so I can't tell if anything is there regarding interfaith activities. Nevertheless, I'm not thrilled by the pictures.

http://www.santuario-fatima.pt/GECA.htm

Justin

Hideous modern architecture !

It literally brought me to the brink of tears.

HOW LONG, O LORD?

Ecce civitas Sancti facta est deserta; Sion deserta facta est. Jerusalem desolata est - domus sanctificationis tuae et gloriae tuae, ubi laudaverunt te patres nostri.

Lo, the city of the Holy One is become a desert place; Sion is become a desert place. Jerusalem has been desolated - the house of Thy sanctification and Thy glory, where our fathers praised Thee.

So go to Fatima and say your prayers in the Greek-Catholic Chapel, which is quite lovely. Incognitus

The model shown resembles a roof/attic vent for a house.

james

Dear James,

That is probably the best description for it. It's very sad, Fatima has had a very special place in my heart for years now.

From the aerial perspective, I can see a (big)Cross and/or, perhaps, St. Peter's key (to heaven!).

Just hallucinating?

AmdG

Actually they'kll do the same they did to Guadalupe Bassilica. In the 1970's, the government's Roman Bishops decided to "re-build" the Basilica, because the original church was too small. They could have built a very big Church, but respecting Mexican Catholic architecture but they didn't. The man in charge of the new building was an Marxist-Leninist engineer, nephew of one of the PRI leaders.

The new building is a very awful piece of modern art, no matter how functional it is. Besides, the icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is placed in the highest and unreachable part of that enormous round structure of iron, there are no visible images of saints or Christ or even the staions of the cross (there are some modernist figures representing the stations though). The Old Baroque Basilica was abandoned for many years until recently when it became a museum under the local governour.

Similar reforms and remodelations have been performed in other Mexican Cathedrals. In the Cuernavaca Catholic Cathedral, the external part of that baroque building was painted red! Do you know why? Because Harrison Ford filmed a movie here and kindly asked the local Bishop if he could do so. Now he Bishop is deceased and the Cathedral suffered enormous irrestorable damages that "killed" some frescoes from the XVII Century.

At that time, most people in Mexico believed that that could not be the work of their Church and that the government was falsifying Bishops's decissions, but I think that the fact that this happened in other countries were the Roman Church was not persecuted confirm that the phenomenon is common in all the West.

This is a great loose for world's Christianity. The Roman Church once inspired the most wonderful composers to write the most excelse music, the greatest architects to build the most marvelous cathedrals, the painters, the sculpters like Mihai Anghel and so on. And now?

Slava Isusu Christu!

Some "wonderful" new modern architecture was used to build this church in Florida.

St. Mary\'s [stmarysrockledge.org]

At least the Missions here in California have kept there identity, so far.........

james

To my mind there is only one possible word

HORRIBLE

How can they suggest something like this - it doesn't fit the style of anything there

Here is an article with some photos of the latest church building in Rome.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature123.htm

Apparently the story of an interfaith shrine at Fatima is true http://www.fatima.org/prrel111203.htm hopefully the faithful will avoid it as they would the devil.

On the subject of building new churches, that's an area where the East really puts us to shame. They're still building magnificent houses of worship, while 95 pct of new Latin Rite churches are ugly as sin.

A couple stanzas from memory. Belloc was a prophet.



There is a wall of which the stones
Are lies, and bribes, and dead men's bones
And wrongfully this evil wall
Denies what all men made for all
And shamefully this wall surrounds
Our homesteads and our native grounds.

But I will gather and I will ride
And I will summon a countryside!
And many a man shall hear my halloa
Who never had thought the horn to follow
And many a man shall ride with me
Who never had thought on earth to see
High Justice, in her armoury.

[. . . . .]

Lest perhaps my little son
Should break his hands, as I have done.


--Hilaire Belloc

NO!

Depuis is NOT a reliable source!! That article you linked to is based on the same old rumor, albeit on a conservative site.


IT CAN'T HAPPEN!!! IT JUST CAN'T!!! PLEASE, LORD, SAVE US!!!!