Why don't we build churches like St. Peter's anymore?

Architect Duncan Stroke is next.

Duncan Stroke is professor of architecture at Notre Dame University

and the founding editor of Sacred Architecture Journal.

And we have the great good fortune of having a visit from him here at Catholic Answers,

so we sat down to talk with him,

and you might think we just sat around complaining about modern churches.

And that's not what we did. We did a lot more than that.

We do some complaining about modern churches,

but we also got to talk with him about what makes a church beautiful.

We used the example of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

And then we talked a bit about how can we make beautiful churches?

Should we just copy those old churches of the Renaissance?

No, not exactly. Here's what Duncan Stroke had to say.

Duncan Stroke from the University of Notre Dame.

Thank you very much for being with us.

Honour to be here, Sai.

And when I talk to you, you're an architect.

You produce beautiful, sacred buildings.

So first of all, a review from you.

What do you think of a little place I call St. Peter's in Rome?

St. Peter's in Rome. Well, one of my favorites.

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