Posted on 11/29/2018 7:22:14 PM PST by marshmallow
Message to the conference on the decommissioning of unused places of worship: Change should not be welcomed with anxiety but as a sign of the times that requires us to adapt
The Church should not see with anxiety that many churches, until a few years ago needed, are now no longer necessary, for lack of faithful and clergy, or for a different distribution of the population in cities and rural areas, but welcome this change as a sign of the times that invites us to reflect and requires us to adapt. The Pope emphasized this in a message to the participants at the conference: Doesnt God dwell anymore? Decommissioning places of worship and integrated management of ecclesiastical cultural heritage (29-30 November), stressing that Decommissioning must not be the first and only solution to be thought of, nor must it ever be carried out with scandal on the part of the faithful but should recall, at the same time, the constant ecclesial teaching which, while teaching the duty to protect and preserve the goods of the Church, and in particular the cultural goods, declares that they have no absolute value, yet in case of need they must serve the greater good of the human being and especially in the service of the poor.
Following the thought of the ecclesial Magisterium, one can elaborate almost a theological discourse on cultural goods, considering that they have a part in the sacred liturgy, in evangelization and in the exercise of charity, the Pontiff writes in the message read by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi at the opening of the conference organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture, in collaboration with the Italian Episcopal Conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
The common sense of the faithful, first of all, perceives for the environments and objects destined for worship..........
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“HA! The Camp of the Saints predicted this..... on the same page that it also predicted U2 and Bono (without naming them, just their actions) ... four years before the band even formed.
All to help third-worlders who will always hate Catholics anyway.”
I thought the same thing. The guy that wrote that book must have a crystal ball or something. The crazy part is that it really didn’t have anything to do directly with the theme of the book.
translation: Speed up the consolidation of parishes and fire-sale the buildings off to be used as mosques.
No problem. You’re right.
Christian persecution continues at terrible levels.
Maybe if their priests hadn’t done awful things with minors, they’d have more money to help the poor.
I agree. I have heard the wealth of those works is unimaginable. Why should the Church horde such wealth?
Yeah, I realize that.
I was primarily referring to the the plot in “Camp of The Saints”; and Pope Frankie’s seeming preference for Muslims and Godless Communists at the expense of his own ‘flock’.
I’m fully cognizant that there are many millions of devout Catholics in Mexico and points south, and even a lot of good Catholics even in ‘Darkest Africa’.
The Vatican Museum is open to the public and is full of priceless art objects. The Vatican uses the revenue from entrance fees which is a considerable amount of money. Unless things that are not on display are the subjects of scholarly research, I think that they should be sold.
I think society will get along just fine....maybe better in some cases. I see Roman Catholic voting patterns that support very liberal candidates as an example.
This thread needs the gif of the “That 70’s Show Girl” laughing hysterically.
Agreed.
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