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.
It is heartbreaking that Notre Dame burned. But it is maddeningly tragic that we no longer possess what it takes to build something so transcendent ever again.
Those running the French state today do not share the values the cathedral was built to represent. They haven’t the skills to rebuild, and they haven’t the will.