Why the Walls of Notre-Dame de Paris Are Groaning

The new Notre-Dame de Paris would shock the saints and holy doctors who prayed within its hallowed columns and vaulted ceiling. But today its walls moan as they are compelled to embrace the hellscape of liturgical innovation.

Published in Crisis Magazine on January 29, 2025

Some things are worse than a devastating fire. Notre-Dame de Paris proves the point.  

While its façade, walls, and roof have been restored to a pristine perfection, its interior liturgical appointments tell another story.  

• The altar has become a bathtub; 

• the pulpit, a highway barrier; 

• the sedilia a Star Wars prop; 

• and the reliquary for the Crown of Thorns, detritus from a wasteyard landfill.  

But the vestments. The vestments were the pièce de résistance.  They were worn by the Archbishop of Paris and his attendants. Any man of taste (to say nothing of commonsense Catholics) cringed. They seem to be borrowed from a troupe of clowns at some local circus.  

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