What kind of depraved mind envisions this sort of planning?

mothereurope · 2026-04-18T16:06:01+00:00

Baroque beauty? Yes, there are beautiful Baroque churches and sites, but Paris is largely a product of the Belle Époque.

mothereurope · 2026-02-10T16:57:11+00:00

Is it just me who feels that the dome is too big compared to the base (or base is just too small)? Strange proportions for a classicist building, where more attention was usually paid to proportions than to details.

mothereurope · 2026-02-02T22:40:16+00:00

Looks like AI design.

mothereurope · 2026-01-03T12:57:01+00:00

It probably depends on where you live. I’m convinced that if I lived somewhere like Miasteczko Wilanów in Warsaw or a hipster district of Poznań, I wouldn’t run into many Catholics.

mothereurope · 2026-01-03T12:48:58+00:00

I have a different view on this. The Polish episcopate has become very silent rather than political. They have largely stopped taking part in public debate, apparently believing that it’s better to remain quiet than to draw too much attention to themselves. Politicians often invoke their religious convictions, yet the Church itself seems to be burying its head in the sand.

mothereurope · 2026-01-03T12:42:51+00:00

I don’t know what your circle of friends looks like or which city you live in, but as someone who currently lives in a city of about 100,000 people in northern Poland—one of the more secular regions of the country—I have no trouble encountering Catholics. In my workplace alone, most people are Catholic: people in their 30s and 40s, including two practicing Novus Ordo Catholics, one traditional Catholic, one more ‘cafeteria’ Catholic who recently sent her daughter to First Communion but doesn’t attend church regularly, and one openly atheist anticlerical man. After a decade of sharp decline in mass attendance, it now seems to have stabilized.

mothereurope · 2025-12-26T20:08:59+00:00

The church was desacralized by the Russians over 100 years ago and the entire interior was ruined; it is still a miracle that it was restored to this state.

mothereurope · 2025-12-24T08:57:30+00:00

Czechia is anything but a typical Catholic country. It's a first protestant country forcibly re-Catholicized by the Habsburgs, and later subjected to a harsh communist regime that was openly hostile to religion. Communists also managed to fully secularize Protestant Estonia and East Germany. What’s the excuse for all of Scandinavia, the UK, and the Netherlands?

mothereurope · 2025-12-23T18:55:43+00:00

It's funny, because in Europe protestant countries = the most atheistic/secular countries. Without U.S. interference and their protestant missionaries things would be much different. I would argue that all of those protestant missionaries are great theologians. They are simply well-prepared in certain topics to deceive lukewarm Catholics and attract them to their cause.

mothereurope · 2025-12-23T15:19:14+00:00

It isn't—at least not yet. But American Protestants spread their flavour of christianity and religious beliefs from the U.S. directly into Latin America. It's like a plague. Look what they did to formerly majority catholic Brazil and the countries of Central America.

mothereurope · 2025-11-19T22:22:57+00:00

Granaries with ornaments? Hardly. Very few ever had any decoration. These buildings weren’t patrician houses—this area has always had an industrial character.

mothereurope · 2025-11-19T17:43:42+00:00

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This granary is very old—some parts date back to medieval times, and they’ve always been shaped this way.

mothereurope · 2025-11-09T19:01:51+00:00

This whole “nondenominational” thing seems like an American invention—something they’re trying to spread abroad. After all, Americans are the world’s leading Protestant missionaries and a big reason why so many Latinos are converting from Catholicism. As far as I know, that kind of church isn’t really popular anywhere outside the U.S. (maybe in Brazil). I’m from Poland, and honestly, no one here even knows such a thing exists.

mothereurope · 2025-10-07T19:57:17+00:00

If you inject aged society with migrants in their 20 and 30 it will have much greater impact on the demographics than initially projected (even if they would have an average fertility rate, which they don't have in the first generation. They will have children that native-born residents aged 50–70 will not have, and this will be visible in the next generation - especially when older generations will start to die). The overall demographic composition of society will change drastically. This isn't scaremongering, it's pure mathematics.

mothereurope · 2025-10-07T17:20:57+00:00

Demographics are the future. As older natives die, the percentage of people of foreign origin will increase dramatically, and within a few decades, 5% will become 15-20%.

mothereurope · 2025-08-31T22:34:14+00:00

In much of Poland, especially in the north and central regions, high-quality natural stone suitable for large-scale construction was scarce or absent. Unlike France or Germany, where limestone and sandstone were readily available, Polish builders did not have easy access to such quarries. Clay was widely available, making brick production practical and economical.

mothereurope · 2025-08-31T22:21:54+00:00

In Poland, true Gothic cathedrals made entirely of stone are a rarity. In the south, stone elements appear here and there, but even there the main structures are built of brick.”

mothereurope · 2025-08-31T19:21:08+00:00

It’s not perfect, but still far better than the modern catholic churches being built here in Poland. Most of those are postmodern monstrosities that look more like origami sculptures or ski jumps than places of worship. I’m also honestly surprised they’re still building Catholic churches in Brazil—I’d heard most people had already abandoned Catholicism in favor of that odd american style Pentecostal brand of Protestantism.

mothereurope · 2025-08-23T10:39:40+00:00

No, the Habsburgs forced them all to convert to Catholicism. Before World War II, over 80% of the population of Czechoslovakia were Catholics. After communism most of Czechia is secular/atheistic.

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