> The Messengers also announced they wanted it to be an open religious space where Muslims, Jews, Protestants, Orthodox, and Catholics could congregate and discuss religion. I knew Justo. I knew how antiquated and conservative he could be. I knew that he had fought for many years for his cathedral to be consecrated as a Catholic place of worship.
This is sad, and it's discussed in the article the difficulties in getting it sanctified as an actual Cathedral, but you don't have to be 'antiquated and conservative' to want the Cathedral you spent the best part of your life making to be a place of worship for your own religion.