Some things just don't go together. Take the photo below, for instance, showing a church in Linz, Austria. You see a beautiful old church with a magnificent baroque reredo that is almost defaced by the presence of a modern "people's altar" and some tacky wooden chairs that would be the envy of most modern Catholic liturgists.
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Sublime beauty juxtaposed against empty, existentialist functionalism.
The rupturistas just don't get it--or else they refuse to go down without a fight. They could learn a great deal from the recent restoration of the Pauline Chapel in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace (below). The "people's altar" was removed once and for all and the chapel has been restored to its former glory without any distractions that hint at the Church's embarrassing silly season of deviation from Her heritage.
Kudos to the Holy Father for, once again, leading by example.
Now do we really need liturgical consultants to explain common sense and beauty to the average Catholic--or will they finally go away as we wake up to the fact that the emperor has no clothes and their sales pitch is no longer necessary?
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