St. Michael's Cathedral, Toronto

While I was on a mission trip with my youth group in Toronto a few weeks back, I went wandering with three friends of mine to look for a church that I saw out of the corner of my eye driving to our hotel. Well, I saw the steeple, at least, and it looked like it belonged to a much cooler structure, so I was dying to go find it.

We did find it, and were impressed to see the rather beautiful (if not hugely impressive) St. Michael's Cathedral. We walked around it, but it was closed and under construction. We wandered back the next day, however, to find it open and went inside. It was gorgeous on the inside, but we couldn't stay long (or take pictures!) as Mass was starting.

Again, not knowing much about architecture or really anything else for that matter, I can't tell you a lot about the church. Although the sign said that it was built in the style of the 14th Century English Gothic period, if that means something to you! Someday, I swear, it will mean something to me...

Boy, churches rock. In my fantasy world, everyone should look at them and say, "Wow, if some people make such beautiful buildings to praise this God they're talking about, how much more wonderful and awesome this God must be! Whoo Christianity!" But I understand that you could then apply that to any other building: "Wow, if some people make such beautiful Parthenons, how much more wonderful and awesome Athena must be! Whoo Greek paganism!" But that doesn't change the fact: churches rock.

Is it mean-spirited of me to want all the pretty churches in the world to be Catholic? Because every time I see a cool church, I immediately think, "Oh, let it be one of ours..." I'm the same with people, though. "Oh, let them be one of ours..."

I'm definitely biased in favor of Catholicism, but I really don't see the problem with that.