Ancona Archbishop Angelo Spina, 67, has ruined the monumental altar in Ancona Cathedral by moving its front part forward, thus causing irreversible damage.
This act of vandalism costed him €350,000, according to Italian media. The previous arrangement which had turned the cathedral into a Novus Ordo meeting hall spared at least the altar which had survived Napoleon, Garibaldi, Communists, Fascists, National-Socialists, two World Wars, Christian Democrats, a 1972 earthquake but not Spina.
The altar was donated in 1730 by Benedict XIV. The famous Italian art critic Vittorio Sgarbi published pictures of the destruction on Internet (below) calling this "a big stupidity." However, stupidity is a key prerequisites for becoming a Novus Ordo bishop. Similarly, John Paul II destroyed the Altar of the Chair in Saint Peter's.
MessaInLatino.it writes that only days ago, Spina threatened cloistered nuns to not open their renovated monastic church “until you have fixed the altar.”
On the other hand,…More