Cathedral at Notre Dame now a global shrine to multiculturalism & diversity
Plans for the renovation were leaked in November, leading critics to accuse the archdiocese of turning the cathedral, which was destroyed by a fire on April 15, 2019, into a "politically correct Disneyland."
Tom Gilson, author of A Christian Mind: Thoughts on Life and Truth in Jesus Christ, predicted that "the rebuilding will be spiritual pretense" for displaying "the spirit of modern man," who is "earthbound, sensation seeking, ignorant of the lofty."
John Zmirak, senior editor at The Stream, blasted the revamp as "a multicultural theme park that teaches pantheism for dummies."
"Better that Paris have a vast hole in the ground, like a missing front tooth to mark the absence of Christ from its society, than set up some idiot's theme park for banal tourists who are spiritual not religious," Zmirak wrote.
But Fr. Drouin insisted that there was "no question of running Notre-Dame like a museum, nor of isolating the liturgical celebrations in a corner."
Writing in the wake of the Notre-Dame conflagration, conservative Jewish author and talk show host Dennis Prager observed, "It is as if God Himself wanted to warn us in the most unmistakable way that Western Christianity is burning — and with it, Western civilization."
"the spirit of modern man, earthbound, sensation seeking, ignorant of the lofty."
