"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Tuesday, September 24, 2002 What's the difference between a Mason and a modern liturgist?
Must be the handshake. Because the tastes in ritual-space design are remarkably similar.
Carrie Tomko, in a comment on the post below, notes the similarity between the modern Catholic liturgists' un-sanctuary and the Masonic altar here.
Note the altar placement in these rooms of the Philadelphia Masonic Temple – quite a remarkable building, really, in an over-the-top rococo-faux-Babylonian sort of way.
St. Albert the Great Catholic Church, which befitting its Austin, Texas, location, is fronted by a mock oil derrick. (Meantime, the mall-like baptismal pool looks well-suited to the pitching of good-luck pennies, though the purpose of the attached Tiki Hut volcano is unclear.)
Completing the Masonic parallel, though not designed by Habiger & Associates, as far as I know, two Italian chapels of the Neocatechumenal Way (which may or may not feature secret handshakes): In Catania, Sicily, and in Florence.