• Wreckovation is a portmanteau disparagement term used since at least 2002 to describe the style of renovations which some Catholic cathedrals, churches...
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    After the recent renovation, regarded by many as a classic example of 'wreckovation', the church once again became the Cathedral church of Beijing. During...
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    architectural standards of churches worldwide, which some Catholics dub a "wreckovation". Sweeney, a council father at the Second Vatican Council, ordered for...
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    Protestors were upset with the "radical" re-configuration deemed a "wreckovation", the unwarranted spending of substantial monies when the diocese is...
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    for churches to be renovated in a way critics often described as a "wreckovation." On 28 February 2013, Pope Benedict XVI resigned from his ministry as...
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    (these issues were addressed in the most recent restoration when the 1969 wreckovation was mostly undone.) There was once a pipe organ installed by Parisian...
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  • architecture following Vatican II stunned many Catholics, who spoke of it as Wreckovation. Some stopped going to church, while others tried to preserve the old...
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  • (Warrensburg, New York) Some have branded his church renovations as wreckovations due to their objection to the large scale removal of sacred art and...
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