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...whether their church ought to spend any more money on the impressive Washington Cathedral, which has cost $30 million since it was started 60 years ago, and will need at least $20 million more to finish. Sensitive to this kind of com plaint, New York's Bishop Horace Donegan last year announced that construction on his massive Cathedral of St. John the Divine would be indefinitely suspended...
...obeisance to God. "I do not believe that not building a cathedral is going to solve the problems of the ghettos," says Georgia Baptist Layman C. H. Lampin. "On that philosophy nothing beautiful would ever be created at any cost." Even Urbanologist Daniel Moynihan deplored Bishop Donegan's decision to stop work on St. John's. "Three summers of rioting and out goes 50 years of zoning," he said. "Twenty centuries of Christianity and we conclude that in a time of moral crisis we will cease work on the most splendid place of worship ever conceived...
Last week the Rt. Rev. Horace Donegan, Episcopal Bishop of New York, announced that the diocese was scrapping the ambitious Gothic plan drawn up in 1911 by Architect Ralph Adams Cram. He in turn had drastically revised the original Byzantine-cum-Romanesque church whose cornerstone was laid in 1892. Instead, the trustees of the diocese have approved a more modest program for completion submitted by the firm of Adams & Woodbridge. In place of the spire-topped 500-ft. Gothic tower that Cram envisioned at the crossing point of nave and transepts, the new design recommends a dome made of concrete...
...recent years, a number of Protestant theologians have suggested that the very notion of a cathedral is an anachronism, and that the church should spend money fulfilling human needs rather than building showy edifices. Donegan is both sensitive to the charge and demonstrably concerned with human needs. Last year he admitted that his stand for civil rights had lost the diocese substantial pledges for cathedral construction-an announcement that stirred other donors to make compensatory gifts. The building fund now stands at $2,500,000, as compared with cost estimates that go from $12 million to $25 million, but Donegan...
...chapters of his book Faith of the Church (written with Norman Pittenger and still used in Episcopal lay teaching), plus some other writing and his law doctorate, and got a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary without taking a single course in theology. In 1952, Bishop Horace Donegan offered him the long-vacant post of dean of St. John the Divine Cathedral...