• Church Life

    The Intentionally Empty Church Building

    An Associated Press story begins with this report of a Belgian church-building-of-sorts: The church is made of rusty steel beams separated by gaps, and its austere beauty won it an international prize. Yet the eerie desolation of the see-through art installation has also turned into a reflection on the state of Roman Catholicism on a religion-weary continent where real churches, like the dozen dotting the hills of this verdant area, increasingly lose their flock and function. The article goes on to talk about how it is not on Roman Catholicism that is struggling on the European continent. They speak of how many churches turned to adding restaurants, coffee shops, and…