The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange revealed the new name of the Crystal Cathedral on Saturday: Christ Cathedral.
The new identity was announced during the ordination of four Catholic priests at St. Columban Church in Garden Grove. Bishop Tod D. Brown disclosed the name to more than 1,500 people who attended the ceremony.
"It was important that any change of name for the cathedral itself be respectful of its spiritual legacy while accommodating our needs to clearly define this important facility as a Catholic center of worship,” Brown said.
Church officials said Brown submitted the proposed name to the Congregation of Bishops and received approval on April 26. Also on Saturday, for the future Catholic cathedral.
In February, the Diocese of Orange of the famous glass church and later in renaming it, which sparked both serious and silly suggestions.
Although the diocese now owns the church, the first Catholic Mass won't be celebrated there anytime soon because the Crystal Cathedral's congregation is still leasing the church for its services.
“Catholics throughout the diocese, and all across America, are eagerly anticipating that important day,” Brown said.
Unfortunately the current followers of this mythology have made a full time effort to redefine him as a supply-sider who believes that each person should help themselves to whatever they can get, and once they get it, only a small share, if any, should be passed down to the downtrodden... and only if the downtrodden believe what you want them to believe and act the way you want them to act. One of the worst at this "we only help if you embrace" is the current Catholic Church. Mother Theresa they aren't. WWJD? Tell them they blew it.
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I have no problem with personal faith in the mythology of your choice. I have major problems with the business of organized religion.Especially when that business believes in rights for some, but not all.
If someone feels that rubbing green mud into their belly button helps bring them closer to their mythological deity, more power to them. They aren't hurting anyone and they get joy and pleasure from their faith experience. But when they say that other faiths are wrong, that they are the one-an-only correct faith; when they teach their adherents to tell others the same; when they hold that by just their faith they are special; then it is a sick and twisted environment ripe for them to trample on the rights of others in the name of that faith. And they do. ALL THE TIME! Look at the financial statements on Prop-8. [side note: My good wyfe and I have been married for 21 years and I have no interest in a same gender marriage for myself, but it is criminal to deny it to two consenting adults that do want it.]
The church that has too many sex scandals to count plus millions of dollars in victim settlements across the world (2005 OC diocese paid victims $100 million for Bishop Todd Brown's escapades) has decide to take up residence in a.....wait for it......glass house? And yet strangely appropriate. This is the best thing to happen since Benedict abolished limbo in 2007, after milennia of the doctrine, and then followed up by declaring being ready to be infallible all over again. Organize your life around this if you wish. Just leave me out of it.
In the Bible God scattered the peoples who built the Tower of Babel by confusing their language. The primary requirement of a nation-state is a single language culture. I don't think principles change.
Like I said "Religion does NOT equal Faith". Faith that brings you solace, is a good thing. Faith that leads you to treat others as you wish to be treated, with respect and caring, is a good thing. Faith that helps you find your place in the world, is a good thing. Faith that helps you heal our world is a good thing. Faith, personal faith, that fills you with peace and loving kindness, is a good thing. That is NOT what the organized religion provides. Faith is internal, organized religion is external. That you derive your faith from a book that was written by a bunch of men between 1900-1700 years ago (and then cherry-picked as to what writings to include), that's really your business. That from those writings you have selected those that provide you with a positive and enlightened approach to your fellow man, again your business (but I am glad to hear it as so many others do not). But the international organization called the RCC is NOT you. They are a criminal enterprise (and I say this with two of my in-laws being clergy) that spews a message of hate and intolerance, and has done so against one group or another for my entire life. The RCC's recent crackdown on the Nuns is yet another example of how dysfunctional the organization is in terms of it's alignment with the teachings that they proclaim to uphold. Hold on to your personal faith, from what you have said it seems to be good and kind no mater where it stems from.
Switzerland is a country with several "official" languages, depending upon where you are, and it is one of the most stable nation states in recent human history. Canada also has two official languages and does just fine. Language is not the defining criteria for a successful nation state -- tolerance, rather than xenophobia, most definitely is.
Without a common language, people are seperated from each other, and are a nation in name only - there is no interaction between the groups - how could there be unless one brought an interpreter along.