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The faithful enjoying praying in the adoration chapel at St. Catharine Catholic Church in Columbus, Ohio. (photo: Courtesy of St. Catharine Catholic Church)
By Joseph Pronechen, EWTN News, September 4, 2023
Joseph Pronechen is staff writer with the National Catholic Register since 2005 and before that a regular correspondent for the paper. …
Since the chapel officially opened on July 25, 2020, it continuously draws people not only from St. Catharine’s but from other parishes and the area, too.
“The beautiful and the good, ultimately the beautiful and God, coincide,” said Pope Benedict XVI while he was a Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, writing in The Spirit of the Liturgy.
His words ring true for the adoration chapel at St. Catharine Catholic Church in Columbus, Ohio.
Beauty draws the faithful in, starting with the stonework façade, which includes a mural — depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary giving the rosary to St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena, while angels, praying priests and nuns “watch” in awe — that is an exact copy of the one in the Dominicans’ Angelicum in Rome. ….
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