Vatican: Modern churches Aren’t Up To Scratch
VATICAN MUSEUM DIRECTOR Antonio Paolucci today criticised contemporary-style churches for lacking “form” and harked back to the Baroque era when he said that shrines embodied religious faith.
Award-winning architect Richard Meier’s Church of God the Merciful Father in Rome (pictured) “could just as well be a museum in Texas or an auditorium in Melbourne”, he wrote in the Vatican’s official Osservatore Romano daily.
Paolucci, who is also the head of cultural heritage for the Vatican, said what was lacking in these structures was the “church form”.
“The beautiful, functional, symbolically efficient building that can serve as a model still does not exist, or at least I have not found it,” he said.
Paolucci said that religious faith in Russia survived through 70 years of Communist atheism thanks to the many churches that were preserved.
The Vatican official said he spoke about the matter with Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno and the cardinal vicar of Rome Agostino Vallini this week at the presentation of a book illustrating 45 new churches built in the Italian capital since 2000.
Paolucci is not the first Vatican voice to criticise contemporary churches.
Vatican culture chief Gianfranco Ravasi has said many modern churches are “inhospitable” and even compared them to “pretentious and vulgar houses” that were as alienating as a concert hall. http://www.thejournal.ie/vatican-criticism-churches-design-914637-May2013/
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Here is the only mention of SHRINES in The New Testament:
Acts 19:24 (KJV) For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver SHRINES for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen.
SILVER SHRINES FOR DIANA A SATANIC PAGAN GODESS.
What does this tell us? It tells us about the diabolical dung heap that is The Roman Cult – The Mother of Whores and her Protestant slapper daughters and all about the worthless things that matter to them.
Only a sick possessed devil and liarl would call the Catholic Church — which was found by Christ — such vulgar names.
Yes I know The Truth hurts, hence your vitriolic reply.
The Roman Cult was founded by Simon Magus, not Christ. Simon Magus was the founder of Simony or better Si-Money. The love of filthy lucre and the primary building block of The Roman Cult. You will find the account of his interactions with Simon Peter in the Book of Acts where he attempts to purchase the Holy Spirit from Simon Peter. Now that’s what you call real demonic evil.
This means that there is only one sick possessed devil and liar here, and it’s you.
I will again draw your attention to my truthful comment about SHRINES, which can only ever be pagan in nature.
Even if truth slapped you on the side of your fork-tongued head, you wouldn’t recognize it. Yet you call yourself yes2truth. Pathetic.
I have provided you with The Truth and all you can come back with is infantile, puerile and meaningless emotional nonsense.
The only pathetic thing at play here is your delusional futile belief and faith in pagan lies and deceptions i.e. The Roman Cult with its empty SHRINES, it’s strings of beads, superstiitions, bags of old bones, stone and wooden idols, bobbing and weaving, Swiss Bank accounts, wives seduced in the confessional, altar boys raped and men in dresses with funny hats. LOL
Here’s a proposition. If you can show me in The Holy Scriptures where the disciples did any of the above evil and meaningless things I’ll join your religion.
The vatican should be screaming about what the churches teach, or don’t teach today instead of the design of the building. Sodomy is immoral, but the churches don’t teach that. Oh and this pre-trib rapture is hogwash. None of you churchgoers are going to suddenly be beamed up by Scotty. And no I’m not an atheist, but I did stop attending church when they stopped teaching truth.
Click on my avatar for The Truth. Your salvation is in Yashua Anointed and Him alone and you don’t need any organisation satanically calling itself the church. The Way is not religion.
” lacking “form” and harked back to the Baroque era ”
Obviously Antonio Paolucci knows nothing about the Baroque style with it’s over the top, over done fancy frilly everything. And if the Vatican wants something different they should pay for it themselves. After all they are only the richest organisation in the world with is own totally corrupt bank ffs. The Vatican is like the Hotel California when it comes to money, in it goes, nothing comes back out.