At least several of these reviews were written by people who have not read the book and have submitted their reviews at the prompting of an ideological blog. Submitting this message requires that I rate the book - I have rated it only as 1 because I have not had an opportunity to hold the book in my hands, let alone read it. Very often these reviews are helpful and insightful - a level to which ideological screaming never rises.

From my online review of the Vosko-ization of Rochester's Sacred Heart Cathedral:

The cathedral project was overseen by Fr. (or, variously, "Dr.") Richard Vosko, a collarless, suit-and-tie-wearing priest from the nearby diocese of Albany who claims "we need a new understanding of what religion is and what God is." He has raised the ire of many Catholics by bringing that "new understanding" to cathedrals in Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville and Seattle.

Vosko and Clark claim the renovation brings Sacred Heart into conformity with "the current norms of the Roman Catholic Church." I presume they're talking about the "norms" set out in Environment and Art in Catholic Worship, a nonbinding pamphlet with no authority published by the Bishops' Committee on Liturgy in 1978 and never voted on by the bishops themselves.

The real norms are contained in the documents of Vatican II, specifically Sacrosanctum Concilium which states that "there must be no innovations unless the good of the Church genuinely and certainly requires them, and care must be taken that any new forms adopted should in some way grow organically from forms already existing."