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Re: Catholic Crystal Cathedral?
Wolfgang #372703 12/06/11 06:18 PM
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This is my Diocese, the one consolation a lot of us have is that the Crystal Cathedral looks better than anything we'd probably end up having our bishop plan.....
Re: Catholic Crystal Cathedral?
StuartK #372704 12/06/11 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by StuartK
I want a truck full of rocks.

I remember a pastor derisively calling this "Slingshot Heaven"!
Re: Catholic Crystal Cathedral?
Wolfgang #372706 12/06/11 07:43 PM
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OK. Give me a sack of ball bearings.
Re: Catholic Crystal Cathedral?
Wolfgang #372710 12/06/11 09:14 PM
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Or just pray that something goes wrong with the escrow so we're not stuck with it.....
Re: Catholic Crystal Cathedral?
isidore11 #372711 12/06/11 10:19 PM
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I have heard that the glass is special and is break resistant. Console yourself with the fact you are getting the world's 6th-largest pipe organ, and it is a fine instrument. If you built something, you could get a mediocre architect who would design something far worse.
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