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"And I beheld, and heard the voice of one eagle flying through the midst of heaven,
saying with a loud voice: Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth....
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 8:13]
Novus Ordo: The skateboarding church in Spain
Novus Ordo: The skateboarding church in Spain
St. Barbara
Catholic Church in the city of Llanera, in Asturias, Spain, began to be
built in 1913 in the Neo-Romanesque style and opened in 1917. It was
initially part of an industrial complex called the Santa Barbara
Society. After the Spanish Civil War, the industry closed and St.
Barbara Church was incorporated into the Parish of San Martin de Cayes.
With the "springtime" of Vatican II, Catholics stopped going to Mass
and the church was deserted by both the clergy and the faithful. It fell
into complete abandonment. In 2007 a group called The Church Brigade
purchased it and transformed it into a skateboarding arena.
Years later, modern artist Oscar San Miguel Erice, aka Okuda, decorated
it with his so-called "pop surrealist" works and renamed it Kaos Temple
(Temple of Chaos).
You can see how it looks today on this page.
Someone could object: But, why do you feel offended when that Church had
been officially desecrated before by the Catholic authorities
themselves?
Our answer: A place that was built for the worship of God and where the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was said regularly cannot be used for certain
profane purposes, even when the Catholic Church retires her blessings
from that place.
This is a truth that is understood by the sensus catholicus – the sense of the faithful – and also by those who want to insult Catholicism.
In any circumstance, the abandonment of St. Barbara Church, like so many
others we are daily witnessing, is a consequence of the crisis in the
Church.
It is one more sad consequence of the tremendous disaster called Vatican
II.