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The Notre-Dame Effect: What’s a Cathedral For?

By Darryl Tippens The Cathedral of Notre-Dame officially reopened on December 8, after a five-year reconstruction marathon involving hundreds of architects, carpenters, stonemasons, engineers, and countless others. The massive project was funded by 340,000 donors from around the world. The restored “masterpiece of faith and Christian architecture,” as Pope Francis described it, would have seemed impossible in April 2019 when

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A SIGN FROM ABOVE

By DARRYL TIPPENS On Monday I watched with dismay as the fires consumed the nave of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. I have had the pleasure and joy of visiting the cathedral twice. Of many beautiful churches I have visited over the years, it’s easy to say no other church in the world is quite like the Cathedral

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