Santa Maria della Pietà al Colosseo |
The Popes of my lifetime have continued the Good Friday Via Crucis there, but the Via Crucis monuments are all gone and no Catholics are allowed where for centuries they went with great devotion. Shame. A glaring monument testimony in architecture to the the modern philosophical preference of ridding the world of Catholic history and tradition, preferring a dead and largely imaginary, re-invented and phony pagan past of dead and useless stone, a testament to a civilization which died, to cherishing and preserving and promoting the present and living faith of Christian culture which is still quite alive, even in a Europe and world that at best tries to ignore it. I, for one, reject the modernist cult of ruins. It baffles me why humanity should worship places and ruins used by our ancestors rather than living there too and using and worshiping God on those places, as our forebears have done.
N.B. Colosseum restoration
N.B. Colosseum restoration