NPR's Philip Reeves recently visited the earthquake-battered cathedral in New Zealand built by a 19th-century ancestor. He found his family history entwined in a fierce contemporary controversy.

5.4-Magnitude Earthquake Damages Zagreb Cathedral, Museums ... Workers finished reconstructing the Neo-Gothic structure, including its iconic pair of gold-topped spires, in 1906.

The Zagreb Cathedral – also known by its full name, the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saints Stephen and Ladislaus – is one of the Croatia capital’s most famous landmarks.

He has a swirl of graying whiskers stretching down to his collar, yet he wears a tiny mustache so precisely groomed that it almost could have been typed.… ...