By James R. A. Merrick, Ph.D., Catholic East Texas - It wasn’t until college that I experienced a slight change of heart. During study in England and Scotland, I toured the monumental medieval Salisbury Cathedral. I was awestruck. I heard the guide explain that the building represented architecturally the theology of the medieval Church. Through chiseled stone, soaring ceiling, and flying buttress, they gave occupants the sense that God is majestic and mysterious, luminous and lovely, almighty and all-wise.