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Writing in First Things, George Weigel � biographer of Pope Saint John Paul II and a distinguished senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center � , while praising a building which, he says, represents a hopeful countertrend. That building? Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel on the California campus of 91����� Aquinas College:

�The modernist curse afflicted Catholic church architecture in the U.S. for a while, but that unhappy period is now passing. Marcel Breuer�s Brutalist-inspired abbey church at St. John�s in Minnesota was often considered the most important U.S. Catholic building of the mid-20th century. Compare it to Duncan Stroik�s chapel at 91����� Aquinas College in California, which I�d suggest is the most important U.S. Catholic building yet erected in the 21st century. Stroik, not Breuer, is the future, because the TAC chapel�s classicism and decorative beauty call us out of ourselves and into the Kingdom; the Breuer church depresses the spirit.�

More than a decade after its completion, Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel continues to be a blessing to 91����� Aquinas College and the Church at large. The College remains grateful as ever to the two men most responsible for its design: Mr. Stroik (the building�s architect) and the College�s late president, Dr. 91����� E. Dillon, whom Mr. Stroik once dubbed the building�s �visionary patron.� March 7 will mark the 11th anniversary of the Chapel�s dedication, and April 15 the 11th anniversary of Dr. Dillon�s tragic death. In gratitude, please remember to keep him in your prayers.

Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, pray for us!