Wreckovation
Another Bad Fruit of Vat II

It was bad enough when the Vatican II modernists stopped building churches as “houses of God” with towers and spires that reached toward heaven and began constructing ugly buildings for their “faith communities.” Not satisfied with that, they started wasting more of their parishioners’ hard-earned money “wreckovating” the existing churches. Sadly, too many of these modernists were more than happy to join in plans to strip away the pre-Vatican II beauty of these sacred edifices. (Yeah, eliminate that vertical dimension of worship and bring in your flat ol’ horizontal, “see how great we are” version.) Case in point, Bishop (gag) Rembert (I-never-saw-a-male-package-I-didn’t-like) Weakland’s disgraceful vandalism of St. John’s cathedral in Milwaukee.

Well, recently, I had occasion to attend Mass at an old church that looked like a church from the outside. High on the walls, beautiful stained glassed windows memorialized a dozen or more saints. Inside, the magnificent high altar still stood alone and forlorn at the front of the sanctuary. Flanking it on either side were the pipes of a giant organ where, no doubt, Gregorian chant was once played. (There was none during my visit.) A simple altar now stood at the foot of the altar, spitting distance from the front pew.
I know with the attempted Protestantization of the Catholic Church by the Vat II hijackers, giant wading pools are being installed as baptismal fonts, but this was the first time I had ever seen pews torn out of the very center of the church to accommodate one of these fonts. Well, given the continuing decline in attendance at the “New Mass,” they probably don’t need the seating.