On the way to Iowa a couple of weeks ago to visit my father on his birthday, we were headed West out of Indianapolis on I-74. It was Sunday, and we had planned our trip so as to take care of our Sunday obligation on Saturday, a break in habit that had our daughter Hannah a trifle confused. Soon we began hearing from Hannah, sitting in her car seat in the back of the car, that she wanted to go to church. "Want to go to church, want to go to church," she kept repeating.
The cause? We were driving by the Engineered Bar Products Division of Steel Dynamics, Inc., a huge steel products plant in Pittsboro, Indiana (pictured left), which our daughter, Hannah, mistakenly took to be a Catholic Church.
Would anybody who knows the Bauhaus hippie artists who inspired Environment and Art in Catholic Worship (1978) please tell them to take that document and shove it where the sun don't shine. If my innocent two-year old daughter can confuse the post-Vatican II architecture of her own parish church (we're not talking Cardinal Mahoney's Los Angeles cathedral here) with the architecture of a steel factory, things have come to a nefarious pass indeed.
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