Comments on: The Loretto Chapel’s Miraculous Staircase

By: st petrus

st petrus — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:01:53 +0000

the staircase is obviously supported by the ground it is standing on. also, the inner helix (inner edge of the staircase + handrail) IS the column supporting it.
no wonder here, just people too blind to think.

By: Brendan Murphy

Brendan Murphy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:49:41 +0000

I know it’s slightly OT (the staircase is amazing) but all you need to know about the Loretto Sisters today is that the Loretto Women’s Network presented the 1995 Mary Rhodes Award to Frances Kissling, head of the pro-abortion group “Catholics for a Free Choice.” Full stop, end of story.

By: Laurie LaGrone

Laurie LaGrone — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:41:07 +0000

I feel better.

By: Jeff Culbreath

Jeff Culbreath — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:29:11 +0000

That would be a miracle! But actually, it wasn't quite as bad as that according to this account: "The architect, P. Mouly, neglected to place a staircase in his design. He had planned to connect the loft with the second story of the convent-school, using an outdoor hallway. This was never accomplished."

By: Laurie LaGrone

Laurie LaGrone — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:41:25 +0000

A follow-up miracle: if the original builders ever got work again after building a loft with no access.

What a beautiful staircase — I’ve never seen it before.

By: Jeff Culbreath

Jeff Culbreath — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:59:02 +0000

Yikes. Boy do they need prayers. No wonder the chapel isn’t Catholic anymore. It would be even less Catholic if this nest of radical feminists and dissenters were in charge. Their identity statement reeks of lesbianism.

By: b

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:36:21 +0000

I’m less inspired by the staircase than I am bereaved that it is no longer in a catholic chapel.

Please pray for the Sisters of Loretto.

http://www.lorettocommunity.org/mission.j.lwn.html