So the Holy Spirit was guiding circularization of the Mass, the tearing out of communion rails, disobedience to the plain letter of Vatican II documents, and the decline in participation at Mass and belief in the Eucharist, but is certainly not guiding the new liturgical movement or the revival of sacred architecture? And it wasn't guiding our forefathers in developing an architectural idiom to facilitate authentic Christian worship including the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.  Got it.

Plain appeals to "The Holy Spirit is Withus! (And not you!)" are about as convincing as appeals to Marian apparitions. "Somebody (Veronica Leuken? The punctual "seers" at Medjugoogoo?) said that Santa Maria herself agrees with me!"

But more seriously, if the Spirit is with the wreckers then why is the wrecker's Christianity so sterile? It doesn't make converts or even teach the next generation.

Like it or not, architecture is not asemic. In taking out the rail one removes something that conveys meaning.