Francis Praises Prize for Ugliness

Francis sent a March 14 message to the 26th public session of the Pontifical Academies, dedicated to "Sacred Architecture."

He congratulated the winners of the Pontifical Academies Prize for their contributions to "sacred architecture."

The gold medal was awarded to the OPPS Architettura studio in Florence for its work in transforming a chapel in Rome belonging to the Foundation of Saints Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena (pictured left).

The silver medal went to the architect Federica Frino for a new church dedicated to St Thomas in the central Italian town of Pontedera (pictured right).

The Pontifical Academies Awards were assigned based on the criteria of design, furnishing, liturgical adaptation, renovation, and reuse of spaces dedicated to worship, taking into account "new requirements" and "contemporary architectural language.”

The winning projects express well the emptiness, secularisation, brutality, decay, and ugliness of the Novus Ordo.

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philosopher

Mar 16

A softer form of brutalism, but still purely nihilistic.

CatholicDoors

Mar 16

Just as ugly as glass face Francis.

Opera 369

2 Mar 15

Would anyone expect anything else from JMB? Again, look at the Cross that hangs on his neck! Then, pay attention to his stole, pallium... so many other abnormal signs, blatantly displayed as provocations to the Catholics. And yet, (certain blind and deaf) Catholics' still ...call him 'pope'!! Matthew 24, Jesus said: "But when I return, will I find faith on earth..?"