Commentary: How and what to restore in Notre Dame
The Cathedral of Notre Dame was built to be a house of God, its soaring Gothic sanctuary meant to inspire both awe and fear.
Indeed, one of the latest photographs of the cathedral's fire-damaged interior paints a miraculous picture of survival: a pile of charred timbers leads the eye upward to a statue of the Virgin Mary holding the crucified Jesus, a golden cross over Mary's head.
Yet Notre Dame is still subject to the laws of physics - and scores
