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Fr. Kevin Drew: Counter-Beeldenstorm: Reversing Centuries of Destruction of Catholic Beauty – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Kevin Drew: Counter-Beeldenstorm: Reversing Centuries of Destruction of Catholic Beauty

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Fr. Kevin Drew, Catholic Exchagne, December 3, 2024

Ordained in 2012, Fr. Kevin Drew is a priest and pastor of the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph. He is well regarded for his preaching and evangelization. His Daily Mass and homily can be found at Catholic Radio Network.

 

Avatar photoJohn Adams was the second President of the United States.  He was also a man of his time who lived in a very anti-Catholic country. As such he was unsympathetic to the Catholic faith by heredity, creed, and conviction.  However, he did attend Mass on occasion, and his writings about these visits show attraction mixed with repulsion.

In 1774, Adams attended Mass at the very beautiful St Mary’s in Philadelphia.  He wrote to his wife:

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear, and imagination. Everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and the ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Adams was raised a Congregationalist.  Like most Protestant sects, their houses of worship were stripped down and very plain, with little or no ornamentation at all.  Someone therefore observed: “The pageantry and power of traditional Catholicism obviously had an impact upon Adams although he was loathe to admit it.” …

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