Pope honors Barcelona's Sagrada Familia as masterpiece of stone, color and light on Gaudí centenary

Pope Leo XIV celebrated the Sagrada Familia Basilica as a masterpiece of “stones, colors and light,” as he marked the centenary of the death of its architect, Antoni Gaudí, with a Mass on Wednesday to inaugurate its final soaring sandcastle spire.Leo called Gaudí’s unfinished temple, one of the world’s most visited monuments, a “sign of unity and harmony for all of Spain,” an ongoing building project like the lifelong journey all Christians make to find God.“We are all the living stones of this edifice,” Leo said from the altar of the basilica, with Spanish King Felipe VI and Quee…READ FULL ARTICLE