Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

@Dieter wrote:

When Benedikt XVI visited the parish church of St. Oswald in his hometown of Marktl am Inn he prayed at the baptismal font where he was baptised in 1927. The font had been used as a garden ornament since the church was reordered in 1965 but was reinstated last Easter as a focal point for visitors.

I notice, Dieter, that this fine baptismal font you mention is now placed directly in front of the old Gothic altar and reredos. Perhaps in such a way as to impede it’s use?

I have also noticed that in many German Gothic medieval churches that passed into Protestant hands that there was a trend to place the baptismal font on the main altar-table axis, presumably to underline the perfect equality of the sacraments in the new theology. I wonder whether that’s going on when modern ‘Catholic’ liturgists seek to place the font in very close proximity to the main altar…. (along with the larger-than-altar-ambo)?