This journal, which appears twice a
year, examines issues of tradition and
innovation in new church design and
includes critiques of new churches and
Catholic buildings as well as news,
theory, and book reviews.
According to the editor, Duncan
Stroik, "Sacred Architecture"
is partially a response to the numerous
requests he has received from
Catholic pastors and laity for
information and advice on church design
and evaluation of available church
architects. In an introductory
editorial he writes that such requests
indicate a need for "an
architectural publication which will
draw on the riches of the Catholic
patrimony and articulate the principles
for a sacramental
architecture."
He notes that while most major
Catholic journals include criticism of
contemporary film, drama, music and
art, suprisingly little attention is
paid in their pages to contemporary
church architecture. By
sponsoring" substantive debate
about sacred architecture" in a
journal "committed to the
promotion of the cultural heritage of
the Church," he hopes to
address "a sudden awareness that
what we have been praying in for the
past few decades has not measured
up."
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