The French are incompetent. Why weren't there more guards to detect the fire earlier? Why wasn't there more fire-fighting equipment on site? Why was dangerous and unsafe work allowed so close to such old, dry timber?
Notre Dame is stuck between a rock and a hard place: the French government can't pour money into a privately-held building. The French Catholic Church is too poor to pay what it would have truly cost to do a proper job.
Why didn't the Vatican contribute a bigger fraction of its billions to the maintenance of Notre Dame? With proper procedures, this might not have happened.
Notre Dame is stuck between a rock and a hard place: the French government can't pour money into a privately-held building. The French Catholic Church is too poor to pay what it would have truly cost to do a proper job.
Why didn't the Vatican contribute a bigger fraction of its billions to the maintenance of Notre Dame? With proper procedures, this might not have happened.