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NPR: Catholic Church To Buy Famed Crystal Cathedral<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n
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Richard Flory, CRCC director of research, was quoted in a report by NPR<\/a> on the recent sale of the infamous Crystal Cathedral to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County.<\/p>\n

The Crystal Cathedral, an temple of glass in Garden Grove, Calif. that was $50 million in debt earlier this year, will be sold to the Catholic Church. The diocese will pay $57.5 million to use the iconic building, made of 10,000 panes of glass, and help Robert H. Schuller, Sr.’s megachurch emerge from bankruptcy protection.<\/p>\n

The iconic glass building once housed congregants of Schuller’s church and became an icon during his “Hour of Power” TV program. Schuller started the Southern California ministry as a drive-in church in the 1950s under the auspices of the Reformed Church in America. Decades later, the church evolved into an international televangelism empire and erected its now-famous building.<\/p>\n

“But in the end, it’s about living beyond your means,” Flory told NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The church had enormous costs in maintaining the building and the services, which included professional musicians and a yearly Christmas pageant that cost $2 million. At the same time, Flory says, the Crystal Cathedral did not adapt to the times.<\/p>\n

“They stuck with a particular model of what church was supposed to be and sound and feel like, and I think generationally people started to look for other things,” he says.<\/p>\n

Read and listen to the story on NPR.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crcc-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNPR: Catholic Church To Buy Famed Crystal Cathedral<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/catholic-church-to-buy-famed-crystal-cathedral\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NPR: Catholic Church To Buy Famed Crystal Cathedral - 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