Shellharbour church design out of step

Shellharbour Parish was reported in yesterday's Illawarra Mercury as about to commence construction on what it described as a new church. The accompanying photographs revealled an extremely ugly and dated design. A multi-function building which it seems will double as a hall. This type of pragmatism has been the hall mark (excuse the pun) of catholic church building for the last 30 or so years, a trend which is happily fast dying in favour of traditional and classical church designs whose purpose is to create a truly sacred space for worship rather than a building subordinate to functionality. Happily the old church will remain in "occasional" use.