These millions and MILLIONS of dollars could fund REAL research to end disease (like the Bill Gates Foundation). Insted, they will buy incense, candles & decorative hats.

What sort of deity would want such over-the-top homage while 30,000 children starve to death every day on planet earth?

The cost of the cathedral does seem high, but I suppose if Catholics have the money to spend in the current situation of the economy... then they should do it. Tens of millions of dollars putting architects, contractors, masons, electricians, plumbers, artists and others to work -- plus a beautiful new home for an overcrowded parish. Seems like win-win.

I do not understand where this word "hate" is coming from. In all of my life, I have never heard a cradle or converted Catholic speak hatefully of another person.

I left the church about ten years ago, but I have been thinking about going back just because of the positive example of charity, humility and grace that so many Catholics demonstrate.

Though having a new catherdral would be nice, I don't understand how it serves the smaller parishes that are having a hard enough time coping with expansion & growth. I have not been to the present cathedral nor is there a reason I can think of at this time to go; it serves primarily its parishioners. We are told that it is too small to serve its community. So is our church, and many churches in the diocese. Build the new cathedral, but you shouldn't build it with monies from other parishes, monies that should go to their own parish to improve or expand.

dws - I believe I did answer. I don't expect we'll see one huge outlay in the Works of Mercy, but in time, appropriate to the life of the new Cathedral, I fully expect we'll exceed the order of magnitue. And that's discounting the intangible positive effects of the cathedral - which can't be assigned a price tag, anyway.

lauraleigh, although you did not answer my question, I understand.....completely

dws - it's not a contradiction. We give a LOT of money to the Corporal Works of Mercy now. Name any other religious organization that provides 25% of the nation's health care, that does the overseas work (think of Mother Teresa of Calcutta) that the Roman Catholic Church does. However - when we get caught up in the temporals, we can get mixed up in the intangible values of Faith, Hope, Love - and we can lose sight of Who God Is in favor of how wonderful we are; this Cathedral will address the Eternal, while continuing and *expanding* the temporals.

Will the Corporal Works of Mercy financial support be increased in the same order of magnitude?

katrinawb: your post is cutting off because you're going over the max 1000 characters. Cut your post in half if you must, finish it on a second one.

jrfergerson: the Catholic Church does help the poor and homeless. You (and a lot of other ill-informed people) are presuming that construction of the Cathedral replaces the Corporal Works of Mercy. As in our lives, the two co-exist and are pursued simultaneously. PLEASE try to become better informed on these facts.

jrfergerson - you complain about not hiring local architects. You mean those Baptist architects who don't have a CLUE as to the relationship between architecture, liturgy and theology? Hey, they built most of the newer (1970s and later) parish sorta-churches in this state: UGLY, irreverent spaces. This guy was chosen primarily because he GETS the theology-architecture relationship. Instead of doing all your bellyaching, maybe you ought to ask "Why?" not insisting we're doing something wrong.

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