The Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa is beautiful, except!
Its free standing altar in no way compares to the magnificent pre-Vatican II altar! In no way does it compare!
When that new altar was placed in front of the original, what went through the minds of children, teenagers, young adults and older Catholics (at the time)?
I would say they thought, as I would have thought, that the Mass had been dumbed down and that there was a dramatic shift in reverence for the Almighty and devotion to him. The Mass was not seen as important as it once was—more iconoclastic Protestant than Catholic, low Church, not high Church.
What says you, from a visceral point of view:
The original altar but now not used for no apparent good reason but nefarious reasons could apply:
The box of an altar, so ugly, it has to be hidden by a full covering:
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