The tragedy of the San Gabriel Mission fire
Posted By: PageTurner, 7/15/2020 9:28:19 AM
It was recently announced that, despite some daft quasi-official hints to the contrary, the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris will be rebuilt as a replica of the 19th-century version that was destroyed in last year's Holy Monday fire. This work will be possible in part thanks to hundreds of millions of dollars in small donations, a great deal of it raised in the United States, where news of the fire was the occasion of widespread grief. Such generosity should be a cause for rejoicing. But it is hard not to find oneself asking why comparatively little attention is being given to the recent fire
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(Snip for tweet)
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It was recently announced that, despite some daft quasi-official hints to the contrary, the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris will be rebuilt as a replica of the 19th-century version that was destroyed in last year's Holy Monday fire. This work will be possible in part thanks to hundreds of millions of dollars in small donations, a great deal of it raised in the United States, where news of the fire was the occasion of widespread grief.
Such generosity should be a cause for rejoicing. But it is hard not to find oneself asking why comparatively little attention is being given to the recent fire
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A suspicious fire at Mission San Gabriel
and a curiously incurious press, parroting
the left's lies 10 replies
and a curiously incurious press, parroting
the left's lies 10 replies
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According to Catholic News Agency:
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Totally true, every word. What Notre Dame is to Paris, the Missions are to California.