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22 Aug

2013

A Cathedral that’s become a Nightclub

Posted by Stuart Chessman 

The former Cathedral of St. Vibiana in Los Angeles yielded to the “Taj Mahoney.” The former church now serves was an “event space.”

http://www.leforumcatholique.org/message.php?num=729741

(Courtesy of Le Forum Catholique)

And even more scandalous, the website of the “event space.”

http://www.vibiana.com/index.html

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles? – as someone remarked of the creator of certain video this week: “No pride, no shame.”

UPDATE:

And this view on the general subject from First Things (which is having its own problems this week):

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2013/08/unlucky-places-on-deconsecrated-churches

UPDATE II

Rad Trad has kindly drawn our attention to a real Midnight solemn mass filmed in this very same St. Vibiana Cathedral. It was part of a 1944 film featuring then singing superstar Deanna Durbin. A feast for the liturgically inclined!

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