How On Earth Did Crystal Cathedral Go Catholic?
An Orange County Evangelical Church’s Flameout Shows Us How Quickly America’s Spiritual Landscape Can Change
This summer, thousands of Catholics from Orange County and beyond, responding to invitations sent out in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese, packed a sun-drenched plaza in Garden Grove. They were there for one of the most important, and overlooked, religious events of the year: the inaugural Catholic Mass at the Crystal Cathedral, once the very epitome of showy, sunny Southern California Protestant Christianity.
The event marked not only the rebirth of the Crystal Cathedral—but also the total reversal of everything I once thought I knew about L.A.’s spiritual landscape. And as a …
