The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140067   Message #3218225
Posted By: Big Ballad Singer
04-Sep-11 - 06:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: History lost to Scrappers
Subject: RE: BS: History lost to Scrappers
The Archdiocese of Boston ordered a beautiful chapel, built in 1944, to be leveled after its land was sold to a university. The land was sold by the Archdiocese to raise money to pay for more legal fees surrounding their indictments for sex crimes.

I'm not trying to hijack the thread, I just wanted to point out that even some within the Church, at one time one of the last bastions of great art, music and literature, will chase the dollar at the expense of history, tradition and beauty.

You know what we get today, now that this generation is selling off all its heirlooms and family keepsakes? We get the plastic crap imported from Asia, the throwaway garbage that won't be worth anything 50 years from now, because we are acting today like we don't even WANT the responsibility of caring for anything worth more.