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Saturday, June 25, 2016

UW Madison Symbol of V2 Revolution Bites the Dust

By:   Jason Morgan
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It's finally coming down. It's finally coming down.
The St. Paul’s community on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is blessed with wonderful, orthodox, courageous priests and perhaps the best bishop in the country, His Excellency Robert Morlino. St. Paul’s is a faithful witness to Christ’s Truth in a very tough neighborhood.

But it was not always so. As in countless other parishes, Vatican II wrought chaos at St. Paul’s. Liberalism replaced tradition; things fell apart. By the Grace of God, the wheels are back on the carriage and the carriage is back on the track. A new church building is being built to replace the aesthetic poverty of the old concrete monstrosity. The Holy Spirit spreads His wings, and the ugly architectural despair of last century’s Modernism comes crashing down in blessed, blessed defeat.

Hallelujah!

Tearing Down St. Paul’s

Iron brontosaurus, Kraken-jawed,

rubbling the erstwhile house of God,

chomping on the reinforcing bar

raining bricks on pews. This metaphor



is much bigger than modernity:

old things torn up by machinery.

For the opposite is really true—

this church was the Sixties through and through.



Priests with ponytails preached in vernacular.

Faithful remnants tucked away their scapulars.

Apotropaic drums and tambourines

shooed away the insubstantial beings.



This was concrete prose, glass boilerplate,

indoor-outdoor carpet, church-and-State

dhimmitude they called, “aggiornamento”:

Blood of Christ exchanged for Marx and Engels.



Munch hard, brontosaurus—leave no trace.

Clear the ground for what will take its place.

New church rising, built like Chartres, Rouen;

Sixties dying. We begin again.
Feature StPaulsStudentChapel3 crZaneWilliams 12242015

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