We welcome back seasoned journalist Erika Ahern to examine why many modern churches became plain or ugly, tracing causes from the Reformation and Enlightenment to 20th-century trauma and post‑conciliar changes. Has a loss of reverence and faith in the Eucharist shaped our worship spaces? Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.

Show Notes

The Real Reason Modern Catholic Churches Are Ugly | The Deep

Ugly As Sin: Why They Changed Our Churches from Sacred Places to Meeting Spaces-And How We Can Change Them Back Again

Duncan G. Stroik

Catholic Art Institute

Cornelius Edmund Sullivan

New portal of Angers Cathedral: “But how can you ask a renowned architect to efface himself before the monument?”

Duncan Stroik | Adoremus

Dover Beach | The Poetry Foundation

Why Catholics Can't Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste

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