Marcello Veneziani: “Right, it is disheartening to see empty churches at Christmas, but the announcement of the end of Christianity sales is even more disheartening".
The fate of our empty churches, the Pope announces that the sacred places, without believers, they must be reconverted for reception.
On the threshold of Natale the Church announces that it will close due to lack of priests and faithful. I had never heard something like that, and not by any ordinary people or by an irreverent priest but by the Vicar of Christ on earth, the Pope himself. Many churches, Bergoglio said, «necessary until a few years ago, now I'm not anymore, due to lack of faithful and clergy". The Church must adapt to changed times, Francesco continued, he must dismantle the churches and help the poor, since «the duty to protect and conserve the cultural heritage of the Church does not have absolute value, because in case of necessity they must serve the greater good of the human being and especially the service of the poor".
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