The Skeletons of Catholic Churches

Catholic Churches are meant to be beautiful. Only the best for the King.

The beauty of these churches is not so much for God, but for us. The images, mosaics, stained-glass windows, the pews, the columns, the altar, the organ, etc. – these things are there to assist us in our worship of the Lord. The sense of awe and splendor that you can experience in a beautiful church doesn’t take away the magnificence of God, it only enhances it.

Beauty can save the world.

Even when they are destroyed, they remain beautiful.

In the spirit of Halloween (All Hallows Eve), I thought that taking a look at some images of the skeletons of ruined Catholic Churches would be interesting and also to show that even when the worst things happen, beauty still remains because God always remains until the end of the age.

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Chicago

Church of the Transfiguration, New York

St. Bonaventure, Philadelphia

Whitby Abbey, England

Pittsburgh, PA

Tintern Abbey, Wales

Glastonbury Abbey, England

St. Joseph Byzantine Catholic Church, Cleveland

St. Joseph, Ridgeway, IL – After a tornado destroyed the church, the high altar was left unscathed.

Ireland

Aleppo, Syria

Detroit

St. Andrew’s, England

Dunkeld Cathedral, Scotland

St. Baldred’s Church, Scotland

Rievaulx Abbey, England

São Miguel das Missões, Brazil