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The Vatican on Thursday warned Italy's bishops against letting deserted churches be transformed into nightclubs if the decision was taken to sell the places of worship.
Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican's new culture commissar, urged "the greatest caution" after announcing that Roman Catholic churches with few worshippers could be sold off.
The Vatican on Thursday warned Italy's bishops against letting deserted churches be transformed into nightclubs if the decision was taken to sell the places of worship.
Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican's new culture commissar, urged "the greatest caution" after announcing that Roman Catholic churches with few worshippers could be sold off.
He gave the example of a church in Hungary which was "transformed into a nightclub and where striptease took place on the altar."
I have to admit, I find this rather sick. I guess if you don't have a religion or don't believe then it's easy to do that. I guess they are trying to get a point across??? I don't get it....
The Vatican on Thursday warned Italy's bishops against letting deserted churches be transformed into nightclubs if the decision was taken to sell the places of worship.
Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican's new culture commissar, urged "the greatest caution" after announcing that Roman Catholic churches with few worshippers could be sold off.
The irony here is staggering. For an organization (or their forerunners, at last) that ran pagans out of town, took their places of worship and converted them to churches...
The irony here is staggering. For an organization (or their forerunners, at last) that ran pagans out of town, took their places of worship and converted them to churches...
At least they were turned into places of worship, not strip clubs.
At least they were turned into places of worship, not strip clubs.
Did this make their act right; to steal other people's property to serve THEIR own purposes? Note carefully, however, that in a lot of these 'places of worship,' some VERY evil things have gone on that were worse than any strip club.
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