“Notre Dame de Paris is an object of world heritage, a thing of beauty appreciated by those of all faiths and none,” Kiely wrote. “Yet the purpose of the building also speaks, not only to the reality, ignored by the constitution of the European Union, of the massive contribution of Christian culture to the creation of Western civilization, but to the living faith without which the basilica would be just a museum.”

Source: Los Angeles Times April 16, 2019 21:33 UTC