In the old days – hundreds of years ago – popular religions like Catholicism built magnificent churches in tribute to the glory of God.
The best architects, builders, masons and carpenters were retained to ensure a state of the art building.
They were indeed the biggest, tallest buildings of their time for hundreds of years and it was only in the age of the skyscrapers – the 20th century – when cathedrals were dwarfed for the first time by anything else around them.
In the past 100 years or so all religions have been the victims of declining attendances.
God is just not that popular anymore and the Catholic Church has been quite rightly hammered for the evil deeds of some of its priests.
But does the Catholic Church know something the rest of us don’t, because in Ingleburn it is building an extraordinary church, more akin to a cathedral than the usual nondescript place of worship built in the past 50 or 60 years.
Indeed Ingleburn has never had a Catholic Church and this will be the first one in its history.
And what a beauty it is, looking at it from the outside, even half finished at this stage.
It truly looks like a building dedicated to the glory of God.
No wonder it’s the talk of the town in Ingleburn.
