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Entry: The Addams Family Chapel Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_addams_family_chapel#10979 Post contents: Under the broad dome of the Catholic Church everything is found! That's why we call it Cathlolic. A chapel dedicated to the Most Pure Vigin constructed of skeletons! Positively Chestertonian! The Church was Goth before Goth was cool, but much more than Goth. Such paradoxes point to a truth beyond convention: "Suppose we heard an unknown man spoken of by many men. Suppose we were puzzled to hear that some men said he was too tall and some too short; some objected to his fatness, some lamented his leanness; some thought him too dark, and some too fair. One explanation (as has been already admitted) would be that he might be an odd shape. But there is another explanation. He might be the right shape. Outrageously tall men might feel him to be short. Very short men might feel him to be tall. Old bucks who are growing stout might consider him insufficiently filled out; old beaux who were growing thin might feel that he expanded beyond the narrow lines of elegance. Perhaps Swedes (who have pale hair like tow) called him a dark man, while negroes considered him distinctly blonde. Perhaps (in short) this extraordinary thing is really the ordinary thing; at least the normal thing, the centre. Perhaps, after all, it is Christianity that is sane and all its critics that are mad -- in various ways." G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/orthodoxy/ch6.html) "The Church is a house with a hundred gates; and no two men enter at exactly the same angle." Sent at: 2008 10 06