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Offline Viva Cristo Rey

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Church made to worship people; not God
« on: July 19, 2018, 07:07:01 AM »
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    Over the course of the 20th century, Englewood experienced dramatic demographic changes. Its population peaked in the 1960s, when nearly 100,000 people were living in the area, but it has declined ever since. And what once used to be a predominantly white neighborhood became gradually mixed, and eventually African-Americans became the majority of people living in Englewood.
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    « Reply #1 on: July 19, 2018, 07:15:08 AM »
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    • How a Chicago parish designed a church based on its people
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    Demographic shifts led to the opening of a new church, with sacred art designed to resonate with the African-American Catholics who make up the parish.
    Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, located in the southwest side of the city, was once home to many Irish and German immigrants, who in the 19th century started a flourishing Catholic community. The first church ever built in the area was in fact a Roman Catholic parish, St. Anne’s Church, established in 1869. 
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    Over the course of the 20th century, Englewood experienced dramatic demographic changes. Its population peaked in the 1960s, when nearly 100,000 people were living in the area, but it has declined ever since. And what once used to be a predominantly white neighborhood became gradually mixed, and eventually African-Americans became the majority of people living in Englewood. 
    But most of the art in the existing Catholic parishes did not reflect the very people who were now at the heart of the community. So when in the 1970s Cardinal Joseph Bernardin asked Catholics in Englewood what they would like their church to look like the answer was: “like ourselves.” 
    Over the next decades, that wish was realized thanks to the dedication of local parishes. In 1967 a snowstorm caused severe damage to Englewood’s St. Bernard Church, leading the community to open a new church, St. Benedict the African, in 1990. The parish commissioned several works of art intended to resonate with African-American Catholics. For example, the church features a hand-carved wooden statue of St. Martin de Porres, born in Peru as the illegitimate son of a Spanish man and a freed slave of African or Native American descent, who serves as the patron saint of people of mixed race. Glimmering stained glass windows depict images of St. Benedict the African, as well as Rosa Parks and Sojourner Truth, over the Chicago skyline . And a crucifix in the tradition of the San Damiano cross—the one before which Saint Francis was praying when he heard the call to reform the Church—features historical protagonists of the history of Black Catholicism in America, such as Father Augustus Tolton, the first African American to be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1886.
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    Re: Church made to worship people; not God
    « Reply #2 on: July 19, 2018, 12:46:48 PM »
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    • It reminds me of a summer camp amphitheater.  All that is needed is a large circular fireplace in the center!  It looks fine, just not like a church!
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    Re: Church made to worship people; not God
    « Reply #3 on: July 19, 2018, 06:07:31 PM »
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    • Yeah. Like a fancy yurt.   I didn't know that sojourn and Rosa Parks were Catholic.  It proves that Vatican II lacks the 4 marks.  
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    Re: Church made to worship people; not God
    « Reply #4 on: July 19, 2018, 06:42:23 PM »
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    • Quote from: Viva Cristo Rey on July 19, 2018, 06:07:31 PM
    Yeah. Like a fancy yurt.   I didn't know that sojourn and Rosa Parks were Catholic.  It proves that Vatican II lacks the 4 marks.  
    Rosa Parks was not Catholic, she was Methodist I think.

    There's very, very few African-American and black Catholics. Usually, it's people who are literally from Africa and the Caribbean that immigrated to the US. And this kind of fake black stereotypical pandering doesn't help.

    Look up St. Sabina's in Chicago. You'll never find a bigger sacrilege and man-centered waste of architecture than that and any of these things - man-centered dining halls with a table and a crucifix somewhere to give it that special Catholic veneer.
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    Re: Church made to worship people; not God
    « Reply #5 on: July 20, 2018, 12:39:06 AM »
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    • I wonder what Saints Benedict the Moor and Martin de Porres would say if they could see it?
     
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    Re: Church made to worship people; not God
    « Reply #6 on: July 20, 2018, 09:18:24 PM »
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    • Quote from: poche on July 20, 2018, 12:39:06 AM
    I wonder what Saints Benedict the Moor and Martin de Porres would say if they could see it?
     
    They would burn the damn thing to the ground. 
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