– The services on the Island of Patmos poor Church for the poor –

They host the HOMELESS IN CHURCHES AND THEN YOU GET WITH A FIVE-STAR HOTELS OF OWNERSHIP OF ECCLESIASTICAL. LETTER TO THE MINISTER OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

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Since in Rome, the Catholic Church, benefits from numerous structures operating for years as hotels, not understand why, to house the homeless, They should jeopardize the historical and artistic structures like our monumental churches.

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Ill.mo Doctor

(D)Ario FRANCESCHINI

Minister of goods and cultural activities

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In the administrative language of the state Churches are referred to as sacred buildings O places of worship, precisely because it erected for this purpose and as such recognized and protected.

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We are not aware however that the State recognized either by law or by international convention with the Holy See, these stable as "reception centers", as "dorms", as spaces for "canteen" and so on [see the photo report, WHO].

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In the hope that someone put an early end to this artistic havoc, we, small but very followed Catholic voice of 'Patmos Island, as citizens of the Italian Republic who profess the Catholic faith, we appeal to you, Mr. Minister, so that your Ministry hasten to curb and possibly an end to this massacre.

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Most of our churches They are works of art of extraordinary beauty, intended use of which may not be the dormitory service for homeless people nor the cafeteria service for the needy, which in both cases can cause serious or even irreparable damage to these cultural assets, that regardless of belief or non-belief, by faith or no faith of the citizens of the Italian Republic, are and remain the property belonging to the artistic heritage not only of Italy, but of all humanity. The Holy See can have as best wishes, and sovereignly, of the buildings within the national territory of Vatican City State and of the areas enjoying extraterritorial scheme under the agreements enshrined in the International Law, but it can not dispose at will of all the other numerous buildings of worship of great historical and artistic interest you instead on the territory of the Italian Republic and which are part of our national heritage, including many churches in these times of rampant and villain pauperism they are used around our country as dormitories and canteens.

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The Holy See it could also decide - as it did with the church of San Callisto which enjoys the regime of extraterritoriality with its adjacent building - to set up a dormitory for homeless or one soup kitchen, because that is stable in the sovereignty of its territory; but it can not use as a use such a monumental church of the fifteenth century which is located on the territory of the Italian Republic.

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We make this, Mr. Minister, that only in Rome there are hundreds of proprietary structures of the Patrimony of the Apostolic Administration, owned by the Vicariate of Rome, owned by the Congregation from Propaganda Fide, owned by several hundreds of male and female religious congregations, already engaged for many years to hotels, although called more bland "shelters" or "Holiday homes", thus receiving the related benefits, while offering, some of them, hotel services also of superior quality [see list of these religious holiday sites, WHO].

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Given that the Church in Rome benefits from all these facilities operating as "shelters" or "Holiday homes", not understand why, to house the homeless, We should put at risk our monumental churches.

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Whereas the Roman Pontiff It is very sensitive to the homeless, it would be to remember that a few steps from Bernini's Colonnade, beneath which His Holiness has been good enough to prepare baths and showers bums, is a comfortable “Home reception” five-star hotel in the Palazzo Cardinal Cesi in Via della Conciliazione, General Curia of the properties of the Society of the Divine Savior. Because, the homeless, They have not been accommodated in this “Home reception” owned Salvatorian Fathers, instead of in a changed church in dorm? [see website of comfortable “Home reception”, WHO]. A few meters from there is also the comfort of the Bernini colonnade “halfway house Paul VI”, which also benefiting, like the San Callisto, the regime of extraterritoriality, It should not even bother to pay hotel taxes [see WHO, WHO].

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Because, the homeless, They were not accommodated in any of several "houses of hospitality" of ownership of the various congregations and religious orders scattered around Rome? [see list of these "host" religious houses, WHO].

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Throughout history, on the occasion of extraordinary events such as wars, epidemics and earthquakes, It has not even made it necessary to seize the buildings of worship, because it was the Church itself to offer them, and to set up inside them infirmaries, dormitories for homeless and canteens; and the first to provide charitable service in them, They have always been priests, religious men and women.

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Since this there are, however, emergencies of this kind, but especially, Whereas the Church and its religious structures have stable in large quantities, many of whom already used for “shelters”, it would not be appropriate to accommodate the poor homeless people shivering inside these structures “hospitality”, instead of within the historic churches ?

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Beyond the walls of the State of Vatican City, someone really think we can make use and destruction of our heritage that art of which you, Mr. Minister, Is responsable, It is having been appointed by the Government of the Italian Republic to the protection of our historical assets, artistic and monumental? No bum and no Roma, indeed, Urine on the stones and on the stable marble found inside Vatican City, starting from those of the Domus Sanctae Martha, since their urine, along with their feces left on the streets close to the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter, the scatter all and only on the Italian territory rigor [see our previous article, WHO].

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For this reason, a number far lower than citizens of the Italian Republic who profess the Catholic faith and who are now increasingly outraged by this contempt towards our historical assets, artistic and monumental, Begs her to intervene as soon as possible and to exercise the powers granted to you by the laws of our country, avoiding the continuation of this terrible destruction.

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We would be grateful, therefore, if you would take at least consider this our legitimate request, so that the civil and political power of this our secular and democratic country, can intervene to curb the damage caused by many ecclesiastics to stable worship of great historical and artistic interest, because no one can be allowed to sully our enormous wealth of art and culture; even to those who can see an authentic expression of the Christian faith only in Villas miseries. We, the Christian faith expressed by the art of human ingenuity, we are more likely to see it in Pieta by Michelangelo, much less so in the leak made by a “brother bum” over a fine marble of the fifteenth century.

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YOUR STAY “BROTHER TRAMP” IN “WELCOME HOME” PALAZZO CARDINAL CESI FATHERS SALVATORIANS, OR IN “WELCOME HOME” PAUL VI OWNED BY THE HOLY SEE

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They ARE BOTH IN FRONT OF SAN PIETRO, A FEW METERS FROM THE BATHROOMS FACTS FROM SETTING UP UNDER THE POPE MONUMENTAL COLONNADE BERNINI. TO BOOK ACCOMMODATION FOR THE HOMELESS, CONNECT TO THE SITES OF THESE "RECEPTION HOUSES" WHO E WHO , If anything THEN LET US KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE ANSWERED …

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THIS IS WHAT YOU SAY, BUT HOW ARE THINGS REALLY ? WE DO NOT KNOW, WHY WE ARE EXPERTS IN TAX LAW. WE HOPE THAT ONLY ABOUT DIA COMMERCIA ALWAYS "CAESAR WHAT IS CAESAR" [cf. MC 12, 13-17], And if anything TOO HOT TO A PLACE “BARBONI BROTHERS” IN SOME BEAUTIFUL “WELCOME HOME”, AVOIDING THUS THAT HAS CHANGED IN DORMITORIES CHURCHES MONUMENTAL

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