An analogy with the hermeneutic of continuity is appropriate. Breaking with Tradition (typically accomplished by preserving original texts, but attaching completely new meanings to the words) wrecks that continuity and cuts people off from the lifeblood of the Faith. Architecture reflects the liturgy, and, as we say, lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi, it is to be fully expected that this modernist rupture would produce silly architecture and appeals to changing architectural styles in the past fall flat when we begin to understand this point.
While Vatian II was a licit council, the aftermath of confusion produced a playground for modernist opportunists who ravaged the Church with the most preposterous attempts to remake the Church in the image of the World instead of the other way around. Watch out for phrases like "making the faith more relevant". The more "relevant" the Church has become, the more it resembled the World, the more apostasy it witnessed: if mass is no longer the unbloody sacrifice, but a mediocre rock concert full of sappy music, then what's the point? So I don't really buy any of these stale boomer arguments about needing to "adapt to the times". Certainly, one may respond to the times, but when the word "adapt" is used, this is just a euphemism for remodeling, usually in an underhanded way.
In any case, France, the eldest daughter of the Church, is a post-Catholic country. Notre Dame, for most French, has already been a museum. All this does is formalize the transition.
While Vatian II was a licit council, the aftermath of confusion produced a playground for modernist opportunists who ravaged the Church with the most preposterous attempts to remake the Church in the image of the World instead of the other way around. Watch out for phrases like "making the faith more relevant". The more "relevant" the Church has become, the more it resembled the World, the more apostasy it witnessed: if mass is no longer the unbloody sacrifice, but a mediocre rock concert full of sappy music, then what's the point? So I don't really buy any of these stale boomer arguments about needing to "adapt to the times". Certainly, one may respond to the times, but when the word "adapt" is used, this is just a euphemism for remodeling, usually in an underhanded way.
In any case, France, the eldest daughter of the Church, is a post-Catholic country. Notre Dame, for most French, has already been a museum. All this does is formalize the transition.