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Bishop Robert Barron criticized London’s historic St.Paul’s Cathedral on Monday over its new partnership with a nightclub company, arguing the venue's upcoming concert series undermines its status as a sacred space.The Christian Post reported that the Church of England is facing widespread backlash after St.
Paul’s Cathedral in London signed a multiyear agreement to host concerts inside the building with Fabric, a nightclub company that lost its license approximately 10 years ago after two drug-related deaths.While the cathedral has worked with the nightclub company before, this latest agreement has sparked an international firestorm of controversy.Though St.
Paul’s belongs to the Anglican Church rather than the Roman Catholic Church, Barron — a prominent American Catholic bishop — wrote a lengthy social media post arguing against misusing the cathedral."Word has just come down that St.Paul’s Cathedral in London — the second most important church in the Anglican world — has imitated Canterbury Cathedral in permitting ‘raves,’ nightclub-like entertainments, to take place in its confines," he began.TOURIST'S CHURCH CLOTHING HACK LEAVES TRAVELERS SHARPLY DIVIDED OVER SACRED-SITE ETIQUETTESt Paul's Cathedral in London, England, is one of the British Isles' most famous sacred places, and has been widely criticized for its new agreement.
(Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)He blasted those who have already emerged to defend the move, saying "The usual reasons for acquiescing to this have been trotted out: reaching out to the young, trying to get with the times, etc.But this development simply shows that the leadership of the Church of England has lost any sense of the crucial distinction between the sacred and the secular."Barron argued that the whole point of a sacred space is that it is specifically set apart from the mundane, secular world and is meant to "reorient us toward the divine.""Accordingly, in the properly sacred space, one is lifted out of th...