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By Jonathan Liedl, National Catholic Register, May 27, 2025
Jonathan Liedl is senior editor for the Register. His background includes state Catholic conference work, three years of seminary formation, and tutoring at a university Christian study center. Liedl holds a B.A. in Political Science and Arabic Studies (Univ. of Notre Dame), an M.A. in Catholic Studies (Univ. of St. Thomas), and is currently completing an M.A. in Theology at the Saint Paul Seminary. He lives in South Bend, Indiana. Follow him on Twitter at @JLLiedl.
Duncan Stroik hasn’t just designed iconic traditional churches — he’s helped build a movement.
One does not necessarily expect to hear the language of warfare coming from the mouth of Duncan Stroik while discussing sacred architecture.
Bespectacled and bow-tied, the renowned church architect cuts the figure of the Yale-educated professor he is far more than any kind of combatant. And the 12th-floor office of his architecture firm in downtown South Bend, Indiana — covered in sun-dappled blueprints, portraits of iconic churches, and plasters of Greek columns — seems more like a retreat to Plato’s realm of the forms than any kind of arsenal.
And yet, the 63-year-old Stroik sees the effort to promote traditional forms of church architecture, a movement that he’s been at the fore of for decades, as a fight of epic significance: of the right understanding of worship against the wrong one, of beauty against mere utility, and of artistic humility against self-aggrandizing pride….
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