Rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral contradicts everything secular Europe stands for

Apr 28, 2019 by

by Jules Gomes, Rebel Priest:

“Don’t cry for me, profane people of Europe,” plaintively sings Our Lady of Paris. Notre Dame sings her Requiem as Eva Peron, dying of cancer, sings from the Balcony of the Casa Rosada. “The truth is you never really loved me for who I am and for what I stand for. The truth is you burned and destroyed my raison d’être a long time ago,” she sobs, her pearl-like tears washed away in the deluge from the fire fighters’ hoses.

Europe is weeping torrents of therapeutic tears. “People are weeping in the streets. I weep with them,” wails Bénédicte Paviot, President of the Foreign Press Association in London. “We’ve seen people sobbing, tears pouring down their faces,” says Marie-Anna Ecorchard, watching from a café. Even “the angels are weeping over the ravages of Notre Dame,” a New York Post’s headline dramatically overstates.

“We saw this at its most ghoulish after the demise of Diana. In truth, mourners were not crying for her, but for themselves,” writes Patrick West, commenting on the rituals of communal grief from the “recreational grievers” wailing the death of their goddess-princess. In Paris, while mega-congregations of “grief tourists” beat their breasts, faithful Catholics sing hymns and pray the rosary—a counter-cultural demonstration of faith the media hurriedly gloss over.

The towering inferno of Notre Dame is telling the tale of two liturgies, two meta-narratives, two Heilsgeschichte trajectories for all who will listen. Why are post-Christian, anti-Catholic, neo-Marxist, cultural relativists (for this is what much of France and Western Europe has become) ritually weeping for Notre Dame de Paris? For that matter, why weep for the destruction of any cathedral?

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