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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 Breuers Brutalist-inspired abbey church at St. Johns in Minnesota was often considered the most important U.S. Catholic building of the mid-20th century. Compare it to Duncan Stroiks chapel at 91 Aquinas College in California, which Id suggest is the most important U.S. Catholic building yet erected in the 21st century. Stroik, not Breuer, is the future, because the TAC chapels 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 buildings architect) and the Colleges late president, Dr. 91 E. Dillon, whom Mr. Stroik once dubbed the buildings visionary patron. March 7 will mark the 11th anniversary of the Chapels dedication, and April 15 the 11th anniversary of Dr. Dillons tragic death. In gratitude, please remember to keep him in your prayers.

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