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Articles by Erik Bootsma

About Erik Bootsma

Erik Bootsma is an architect practicing in Richmond, Virginia. A graduate of Thomas Aquinas College in California and the Notre Dame School of Architecture, his firm, Erik Bootsma Design, specializes in sacred architecture. His academic interests include philosophy of aesthetics and the canonical requirements of post-Vatican II sacred architecture.

“Ad orientem” and the problems of modern church architecture

August 2, 2016 Erik Bootsma 2

Since Cardinal Robert Sarah’s speech at a London liturgical conference urging a return to the traditional practice of celebrating Mass ad orientem, there has been a fair amount of debate and even acrimony. What is […]