The following comes from an April 7 Christian Post article by Michael Gryboski:
Services for Crystal Cathedral founder, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, will be held in the very iconic sanctuary that his ministry created.
While it’s now under the ownership of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange and named Christ Cathedral, the large southern California church building will be used for the famous televangelist’s funeral.
In 1951, Schuller and his wife founded the Crystal Cathedral church in Garden Grove, Orange County, California.
In 1970, Schuller started the influential and popular “Hour of Power” religious program, which remains on the air today and is helmed by his grandson.
Ten years later, the pastor started services in his new Crystal Cathedral, an imposing glass and steel sanctuary with approximately 10,000 windows and thousands of regular attendees.
By 2010, however, Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral Ministries found itself deep in debt. The ministry filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, owing over $7 million to creditors.
The Crystal Cathedral building was eventually sold to the Diocese of Orange for $57.5 million, and later renamed the Christ Cathedral in 2012.
Last week, Schuller died at age 88, at a nursing home in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer that had been diagnosed back in 2013.
He did build the place, so the request seems reasonable.
In Germany, we often share space with the Protestants in the same church. The church building is for example used by Catholics are 10am and then by the Evangelicals at 12pm, much like the USA military chapels are shared by Jews, Christians and others.
Pastor Schuller was very sympathetic toward the Catholic Church, which makes me happy that we are able now to accommodate his funeral in our church.
May the soul of Rev. Robert Schuller, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
I do so love that bell tower. It points us toward heaven.
Religious indifference in action. Did anyone ever tell him that his road up ahead is out?
Yes, very nice indeed to have it there, but the main thing about it he did not belong to the “One True Roman Catholic and Apostolic Faith.” He belonged to a Protestant “sect” not founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ like the Holy Roman Catholic Church was.
Janek, and your point is?
Are you suggesting that he could never go to heaven because he was not Catholic? Would that not be against Church teachings? Are you suggesting that all the people he brought to Christ were there in vain? What is your point? By the way, Christ was a devout Jew. St. Paul, and the other Apostles are the ones who founded the Church. Many denominations, if not most, define the Church as people who believe that Christ is their Lord and savior, who died for their sins so that they may have eternal life with Him. I don’t believe, and neither does the Church, that all other non-Catholic Christians are going to hell.
Anonymous, apparently you are not Catholic and have never read the Bible.
JESUS CHRIST founded the Catholic Church (even though He was a Jew).
“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build MY Church.
And the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.” – JESUS.
Mt 16:18-19.
The Protestant Churches were founded by men starting with Martin Luther in the 1520s. There are now over 30,000 Protestant denominations some of which change their beliefs every so often based upon relativism, etc.
Can non-Catholics get to Heaven ? – Yes.
See CCC 846-848.
CCC: 847 ” This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through NO fault of their own, do not know Christ AND his Church:
Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ OR His Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience – those too may achieve eternal salvation. “
When I posted my post on April 10th at 10:51 a.m., I had no idea that Robert Schuller had refused to sign petitions to defend marriage between one man and one woman. He was not the man I though he was. Nevertheless, I will pray for his soul.