When footage of an inferno engulfing Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris flashed across our news feeds on April 15, 2019, the world collectively gasped. What would Paris be without this iconic cathedral to ...

While the Second Vatican Council has produced great fruit for the Catholic Church, it must be admitted that there have also been some disastrous consequences. One of the most negative results has been ...

I met one of our local architects, a good Catholic, at the soccer game where our sons were playing. We got to talking about the problems of architecture for modern churches. In the old days, the ...

Just a decade ago, few observers of the Catholic architectural scene would have predicted a comeback of traditional-looking churches like those currently being constructed in parish communities across ...

This bold new design transforms a historic Dutch church into a swimming pool, where you can “walk on water” and lifeguards sit in the former pulpit. “Imagine swimming the backstroke with a view of a ...

Some American architects are looking to the past in order to remedy the defects of the modernistic designs of recent decades. Mass being celebrated at the central altar of Our Lady of Mount Carmel ...

We asked two experts, one an architect and the other a sacred space planner, to suggest three things that American Catholics should know about church design today. We also asked them to select a ...

London studio DOS Architects have won a competition to design a 2000-seat church in Lagos, Nigeria with this design featuring an undulating roof. The Catholic Church of the Transfiguration will be ...

The original St. Nicholas Church was crushed on Sept. 11, 2001 as the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. Besides the towers of the World Trade Center, it was the only building destroyed ...

A remarkable record of individual design and craftsmanship, Poland's Communist-Era Churches pay homage to experimental forms that still wow today. With a reputation for conservatism, one might not ...