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Post by M. Hawbaker on Jul 11, 2019 18:02:21 GMT
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — An iconic glass-paned church in Southern California that once housed a booming televangelist ministry has been transformed into a cathedral to give the region's Catholics a long-awaited and much larger place to congregate and pray. The landmark, with a facade made up of nearly 11,000 glass panes, was long known as Rev. Robert H. Schuller's Crystal Cathedral. It appears unchanged from the outside. But the cavernous house of worship is covered on the inside with quatrefoil window shades that send sunlight cascading across a stone altar, wooden pews and prominent steel crucifix. The changes are part of a $77 million makeover to convert the space for Roman Catholic worship by adding features such as the Bishop's chair and the geometric window shades that draw in light while keeping the 2,100-seat building now known as Christ Cathedral cool and airy under the glaring afternoon sun.
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Post by barb43 on Jul 11, 2019 22:21:59 GMT
So hard to think of the Crystal Cathedral with out remembering Dr. Robert Schuller. I Robert Schuller's story . . . This is a fantastic article that tells the basic history of Robert Schuller's ministry and the Crystal Cathedral. From there, Dr. Schuller moved on and moved up until he was holding televised services from the Crystal Cathedral. I'm not sure how to categorize his ministry, Christian or something else. I really don't know if the move to catholicism is a move up, a move down, or a lateral, so far as Christian faith is concerned. A couple of things bother me about the move to catholicism. The first is the wide variety of the many relics they're bringing with them: And also their hopes of having people of all faiths find value in this religious structure: Surely a mild support for normalization of the one-world religion.
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