This just might make your day! Filmmakers Guillaume Juin and Joris Favraud have formed a new company for filming with drones, and there most recent video is a stunner. Shot in the gorgeous St. Louis Church in Paimboeuf, France, the drone let’s you appreciate the beauty of the church...
Conventional wisdom has a great affect on many aspects of life including the built environment. Being social creatures we tend to believe what others do, and follow the example of those closest to us in time or place. However, it is also beneficial for us to confront the conventional wisdom...
It was almost destroyed in 1988, due to a bad financial situation and the movement to “update” church architecture. Thankfully, it was saved by a resourceful priest and with the help of Cardinal Francis George. And now St. John Cantius church has been voted “America’s Most Beautiful Church”! Isn’...
The Sagrada Família is one of the great wonders of Christendom in Europe. And it’s not even completed yet! Designed by Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí, the project was started in 1882 and is still underway. It’s estimated that about 30% of the building is left for construction, and...
Churches should be beautiful – even if they’re in Antarctica, right? That seems to have been one of the philosophies behind the construction of Trinity Church, a small but gorgeous Eastern Orthodox church near the South Pole. [See also: The Otherworldly Underground Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá] [See also: If Hobbits...
Before the Second Vatican Council, the normal way for a Catholic to receive the Eucharist was for him to kneel at an altar rail at the front the church and receive on the tongue. Altar rails were sometimes plain, sometimes very ornate – but they were a predictable part of many...
