Plans to turn the landmark into a 'politically correct Disneyland' include contemporary art, a discovery trail, luminous phrases projected on the walls and remodeled side chapels to reflect 'ecological thought.'
The man who is creating the blueprints for Notre Dame’s makeover, Fr. Gilles Drouin, is a teacher of liturgy and an enthusiastic detractor of the traditional rite.
In the middle of a 2,000-kilometer (1,243-mile) trek through the country, the Assumption will be celebrated with Mass, prayers and a consecration on August 15 in Paris.
The general appointed by President Emmanuel Macron to head the project dismissed the concerns of Notre Dame's chief architect, saying he should 'shut his big fat mouth.'
Every year, thousands of traditional Catholics walk on foot from Paris to Chartres between the Vigil of Pentecost and Pentecost Monday. This year, I was among them.