This very Reformed interior has the table and pulpit as focal points. The uniformity of design and structure of these two means of grace is to emphasize the unity of word and sacrament. The tracker action organ is discreetly ...

Even the hallways of the Sala Regia are adorned with massive frescoes and baroque ornamentation. It was through these hallways that we were also taken by the Dutch papal sacristan, Archbishop van Lierde, who granted ...

Photos were not allowed in the Pauline chapel which is the pope's private chapel. Through the influence of the Ladies of Bethanie and the ecumenical euphoria of Vatican II, together with the pope's recent visit to Geneva ...

Alongside the entrance at the base of one of the flanking towers is an altar for the side chapel. Its stark simplicity with the light from the clerestories and candle and stuccoed cylindrical walls lend an aura of sanctity ...

The slightly separated weekday chapel with the Madonna is to the left.

In one corner of the front of the great church room is a sculpture of Mary and Child surrounded by a tree and flowers with pews for private devotion.

The Passion Chapel (lower chapel), designed by Charles Wyrsch, is built into the slope and can be entered from the road.

Contrary to Schaffrath's artistic premise concerning the windows, here the great concrete frame for the liturgical center is filled with pictorial biblical iconography. Note the tabernacle for the reserved Host to the right ...

From left to right: a chapel with the great rose window and perhaps a monumental structure to hold the tabernacle. Toward the center of the photo, a side chapel marked only by a semiabstract hanging with the extended hand ...

The lectern and chair for the celebrant as well as the cloth of gold in front of the tabernacle for the reserved host reenforces Barragan's ability to express visual wonder with the utmost simplicity.