After the controversy over the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, it is the turn of the interior design of the cathedral, ravaged by flames in April 2019, to cause controversy. On December 9, the diocese of Paris presented its project to the National Commission for Heritage and Architecture (CNPA). In what we know of its main orientations as of its details, it is not unanimous, both among the clergy and the faithful, many of whom are worried about no longer recognizing their cathedral when it reopens to the public in 2024. Entrusted by Mgr Michel Aupetit, Archbishop of Paris (who has just resigned from his post), to Father Gilles Drouin, parish priest of the diocese of Évry - Corbeil-Essonnes and director of the Higher Institute of Liturgy at the Catholic University from Paris, the subject crystallizes tensions. An article from
Daily Telegraph
has ignited the powder: Notre-Dame de Paris, a major building in Christendom, is on the way, according to the British daily, to
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