A friend dropped me an e-mail earlier today to give me a heads-up about a beautiful new Catholic church that’s being built in Brewster, New York. He thought I’d be especially interested, because I serve at a gorgeous Gothic-style building, completed in 1941.

The new church is St. Lawrence O’Toole.

A rendering by the architectural firm Drazen Cackovic is below:
 
And if you visit this link, you can watch an animation of the renderings, which gives a glorious view of the sun-drenched interior, too.

When I show off my parish, Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Forest Hills, I like to tell people, “They don’t build ’em like this anymore.”  Well, evidently, I’m wrong.  This looks like it’s going to be a wonderful church.  The only thing missing is a bell tower!  🙂 

(BTW, you can surf around the website above to see some pictures of my home parish….)
 
UPDATE: A commenter alerted me to this stunning new church in Tennessee, which is Romanesque by design. Maybe the long, dry period of sterile church design is finally coming to an end?