“Towering like the Emerald City, the cathedral formerly known as Crystal sits at what might be Orange County's nucleus, a trinity of confluencing freeways, the Angels and Ducks stadium and a glimpse of a sacred place of a different kind — Disneyland.
“From that gleaming sanctuary, evangelist Robert Schuller delivered sermons that were beamed to television sets around the world. His ministry became synonymous with the megachurch, designed so the light and the breeze could stream through, a grand replica of his humble beginnings preaching on the roof of an Orange drive-in’s snack shop.
“The Crystal Cathedral was to Schuller what Graceland was to Elvis. Now it has been bought by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, which has long coveted having a cathedral that sat at the center of its vast footprint of 1.2 million Catholics.”
The Diocese of Orange now owns the Crystal Cathedral, and it is in the process of transforming into its own cathedral, Christ Cathedral.
To access a Los Angele Times report on the process of this renovation, please visit:
Los Angeles Times: Changing faiths at the Crystal Cathedral (13 SEP 13)
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