[Magdalen] Latin Invasion?

Scott Knitter scottknitter at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 19:01:33 UTC 2015


I think on average RC parishioners are more liberal than the average RC
bishop... In the USA
On Jul 15, 2015 1:42 PM, "Lynn Ronkainen" <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Our RC brethren and sisteren are growing in number and large families are
> becoming the norm again, and if one reads up on international RC
> developments, I think that US R Catholics are probably much more
> conservative than their foreign counterparts. For at least 10 years
> American bishops have been trying to not only roll back, but box up and
> toss out as time worn, many Vatican changes. It's not 'our parents RC' any
> more, it is our grandparents...
> Lynn
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> by Richard Rohr
>
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> From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 1:35 PM
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> Subject: [Magdalen] Latin Invasion?
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>
>> When my brother, Paul, lived in Raleigh, NC USA during the 1970's
>> I recall the paucity of Roman Catholics in the Raleigh Diocese,  listed
>> as around 2% of the population.
>>
>> I was therefore surprised to discover that the Diocese is in the  midst
>> of building a surprisingly large new cathedral listed as being 350'
>> in length and with a 160' dome.  The cathedral is to seat 2,000.
>>
>> When the plans are accessed, they reveal a surprisingly conservative
>> Latin Cross plan and a brick and stone building that is straight out  of
>> 18th century Italy.  The plan seems to give faint lip service to
>> Vatican-2.
>>
>> In any case, there must be a lot more RC's in North Carolina than  there
>> were in 1975.
>>
>> I seem to recall that the designing architectural firm does  specialize
>> in retro designs (?).
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.mccreryarchitects.com/portfolio/liturgical/cathedral-holy-name-je
>> sus/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>
>
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