New web journal promotes traditional Church architecture.New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- November 2004 marked the inauguration INAUGURATION. This word was applied by the Romans to the ceremony of dedicating some temple, or raising some man to the priesthood, after the augurs had been consulted. It was afterwards applied to the installation (q.v. of best-selling best·sell·er also best seller n. A product, such as a book, that is among those sold in the largest numbers. best author Michael S. Rose's new web journal devoted to the noble cause of restoring the sacred to Catholic church architecture. Launched in conjunction with his latest book In Tiers of Glory, Dellachiesa.com (short for architetturadella chiesa, the Italian translation of "church architecture") is arguably ar·gu·a·ble adj. 1. Open to argument: an arguable question, still unresolved. 2. That can be argued plausibly; defensible in argument: three arguable points of law. one of the most beautifully designed web sites-Catholic or otherwise--available on the Internet today. Its beauty is outdone out·do tr.v. out·did , out·done , out·do·ing, out·does To do more or better than in performance or action. See Synonyms at excel. only by its usefulness. "I wanted to bring together all the most helpful resources on traditional church architecture, restoration, and preservation into one place, and also to link viewers visually to the church's sacred patrimony PATRIMONY. Patrimony is sometimes understood to mean all kinds of property but its more limited signification, includes only such estate, as has descended in the same family and in a still more confined sense, it is only that which has descended or been devised in a direct line from the ," said Rose, author of The Renovation Manipulation and Ugly As Sin, two books dealing, respectively, with church "wreckovations" and modernist church architecture. The thesis of the web site is similar to the thesis of Rose's In Tiers of Glory. Catholics and especially priests, bishops, liturgists, and architects--cannot be ignorant, or pretend to be ignorant of the history and tradition of ecclesiastical art and architecture. With that in mind, Dellachiesa.com presents a veritable eye carnival of exemplary churches designed by living architects. Some of the projects featured are academic, but most are professional projects that have been realized, or are in the process of being built (Paul Likoudis, The Wanderer, Dec./2004). |
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