Are We Too Primitive to Rebuild Notre Dame? by John Zmirak

Are We Too Primitive to Rebuild Notre Dame? by John Zmirak

But I fear we don’t even want such beauty enough to recreate it. It frightens us with its demands. As God does, which explains why we flee Him. We’d rather keep our eyes firmly fixed on the husks that we feed to the pigs than think about the Father.

Watch, just watch. If some devout billionaire, or kindly non-Catholic French patriot, donated every dollar of the billions it would cost, you know what some bishop would say? He’d echo the words of one of the Church’s very first bishops: “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”

A sad post-Notre Dame commentary on European Christianity.