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April 22, 2019
Making Sense of the False Outrage Over Notre Dame's $1-Billion Restoration
By Bobby Hesley

Having just finished this Holy Week of 2019, we've been hearing a lot of hypocritical and selective moral outrage from people regarding all the money that is going to be spent to restore Notre Dame Cathedral.

While I think it would be tragic to update it into a more modernistic and godless design due to its rich 800-plus-year Catholic history, the concept of spending lots of money to restore a cathedral does not bother me at all. In fact, it should bother us if people were unwilling to pour lots of money into a cathedral.

Does God not deserve our best? Fr. Ben Johnson that had a great quote in a recent article he wrote for the Acton Institute: "Christians built cathedrals as earthly embassies of the kingdom of heaven." More.......