"In relation to the last pics I posted...here's the other big church in Washington - The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Holy Basilica. It's on the campus of Catholic University right up North Capital Street. Again, I strongly recommend this as a place that every person should take the time and go visit. I'm not catholic myself - but this church gives me goose pimples when I walk in the door."
I always thought it a fairly homely building from the outside, but as Sens has captured so well, it is spectacular on the inside. And agree with Ken on the guy with the hat, that is very disrespectful. Even though Catholics tend to be much more casual with their attire than mainstream Protestant faiths, you don't see baseball hats during mass too often. Very declasse. One exception I can think of from my own experience, masses in Nags Head (Outer Banks, NC) tend to be extremely informal for the beach going vacationers, everyone in flip flops, shorts and t-shirts.
