Here is a picture of the Masonic, phallic-looking tabernacle, which is off to the side of the "Main altar."

Glad you said it and not me! Lol! Man, when you showed me this yesterday, I hesitated to say the same thing and didn't so I could zoom in on the top part to see if Our Mother was standing on top of it. From a distance, despite my initial reaction, I thought it might be an oversized tabernacle illustrating Our Lady's Assumption, and given the name of the Cathedral would counteract my unsavory perception of it. But She is not on there from what I can see. So I kept my big neophyte mouth closed. I'm over here dying laughing because you didn't mention your thoughts on what it looked like, so we were both likely waiting for the other to say it first. 

OABrownson1876's knowledge of the Church's History, travels to Catholic sites, and the number of books he's read (and owns) farrrrrr exceeds mine. Between the two of us, I am the one who would have said it out of ignorance.

My point is that two people with different knowledge, experience, and understanding thought the same thing. It now appears there is an explanation for the shape of the tabernacle. But to say he ought to do more traveling and reading made me laugh only slightly less than my comment in the paragraph above. 

The Archbishop recently designated St Martin of Tours in Louisville a Diocese Shrine. Whether it was his intent or not, St Martin's now being a shrine instead of a parish protects the TLM prayed there from Francis' TC.

Not sure what is meant by, "St Martin's protects the Latin Mass."  The priest was there (St Martin's)  yesterday dishing out Communion in the hand; people talking out loud; no head coverings, etc.  St. Martin's is doing a good job of protecting the insanity inside the Church. 

I didn't say St Martin's protects the TLM. I said what you quoted. The designation as a shrine, instead of a parish, places it outside of Francis' criteria per his TC.

Just curious... why were you at yesterday's NO ?

HolyAngels, I never made the claim of having attended St. Martin of Tours.  I simply said that the priest was "dishing out Communion in the hand" and you inferred from these words that I was there.  Could it be that someone I knew was there and witnessed what I related in this thread? That is indeed the case. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I attended the sacrilegious New Mass, but I am sure Almighty God will refresh my memory at the time of my Particular Judgment.

As to my OP, any Catholic with a modicuм of common sense, having his sensus Catholicus, must see and comprehend that what is pictured is grotesque and unbecoming of Catholic art.  Even the lamb on the front on the tabernacle, being pierced through his groin area by the upside down cross, is unbecoming.  The entire "artistic" structure seems to us, a sharp, middle finger, an obelisk-like structure, a phallus, pointing straight at God, mocking his face.  And we bet that if the author of the statue were known, and the bishop who gave his approbation were discovered, then the point would be easily proven.  We ought not be surprised when we see these things in the churches run by modernists. 

Did not the late Dr. Bella Dodd, a famous Catholic convert, and high-ranking ex-communist and lawyer, inform us many years ago, in her autobiography, School of Darkness (1954), that she had personally trained hundreds of Catholic men to enter the seminaries, schooled in the precepts of communism?

Yes, the churches have been filled with masonic ideas, masonic statuary, masonic slogans, and masonic-loving priests and laity.  In fact, about ten years ago in Louisville a very prominent Catholic politician was given a NO funeral mass, despite the fact that his obituary labelled him as a proud 32-degree freemason.  When the archdiocese was questioned about this scandal, I was given the pathetic excuse that "we Americans look upon Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ a little differently than the Europeans do." 

That is not an inverted cross and neither is the cross piercing through the lamb. It looks like the lamb was superimposed on a cross laid on the ground. An inverted cross would be that of the cross of St. Peter. 

Well, I must say that I don’t like it … either this one or the one from Cologne.  Looks kindof dumb.  But de gustibus non disputandum …. To me it seems to draw the eyes above where the focus should be.

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Pope St Pius X used a six point star as well. An early Christian symbol.