"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, August 12, 2003 On the Cathedral Rorschach Test, I look at France's Evry Cathedral and see a bald man with a fringe of hair around his head: The church building as tonsure? The cathedral, which opened in 1996 and hosted the Pope a year later, was the first to be built in France in more than a century – thus telling you a lot about France, and providing a modernist yardstick against which subsequent cathedrals might be measured.
It is hard to top the L.A. Cathedral, which is coming up on its first anniversary, and which some critics have dubbed Cardinal Mahony's Temple of Baal, a perception not lessened by the air of the Delphic Oracle that has attended some rites there.
![[SMMMHDH]](http://www.mgilleland.com/music/smmmhdh.png){kind=small}
