The Cathedral and the Cube: Reflections on European Morale

In light of the terrible fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, it seemed right to post this synopsis from George Weigel's book, The Cube and the Cathedral in which he uses the image of that great church as representative of the religious culture that nurtured Europe into its status as a 1st world power in opposition to the Grand Arch du Défense, the glass enclosed edifice constructed in the last years of the 20th century which represents the modernist secular society that animates most of Europe today.

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