Alan Hustak
Alan Hustak is a Montreal-based author, journalist, and broadcaster. Born in Saskatchewan, he has also lived in Alberta, where he wrote a biography of Premier Peter Lougheed. His other works include a "biography" of Montreal's St. Patrick's Basilica and The Murder of Mary Gallagher: The True Story of the Ghost of Griffintown.
Bio last updated June 18th, 2021.
Articles by Alan Hustak
On the Table: Saskatoon's Big Box Cathedral
By Alan Hustak
September 1, 2012
Saskatchewan native Alan Hustak goes home and finds that the new cathedral in Saskatoon leaves him wondering if he's wandered into a strip mall by mistake. The building committee assures him he has not.
In addition to the octagonal worship space with its fan-shaped seating for 2,000, the project ended up as a 19,800-square-metre complex that houses the Catholic Pastoral Centre, a banquet hall, meeting rooms, the diocesan archives, a rectory and a bishop's office There is nothing wrong with the overall contemporary design of the Holy Family Cathedral, but this building, as modern and as technically sophisticated as it is, is devoid of spiritual dimension.