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Austrian Bishop Wants to Use Church Simultaneously as Climbing Gym

Bishop Hermann Glettler of Innsbruck, Austria, a homosexual activist and reader of Gloria.tv, wants to use the Petrus Canisius Church in Innsbruck for both presiding at the Eucharist and climbing.

The project has yet to be approved by the parish council and the office for the protection of monuments. Monsignor Glettler wrote in a letter to the parish that it would be an "attraction" to use the church as a gym at the same time.

The church is a flat-roofed, towerless central building with a square floor plan, built between 1968 and 1972. At present, around 25 people attend the Sunday Eucharist there.

To make the project possible, the pews will first have to be removed to make way for a free-standing climbing wall.

Bishop Glettler: "The Eucharist will continue to be celebrated every Sunday in the main nave and the Blessed Sacrament will be kept in the chapel on the ground floor, which will be open to everyone as a spiritual space."

The operator of the climbing centre should also provide catering facilities (!) and changing rooms, as well as a children's adventure world.

Canon 1210 of the Code of Canon Law states: "In a sacred place only those things are permitted which serve the exercise or promotion of worship, piety or religion; everything that is not in keeping with the sacredness of the place is forbidden". But in the Novus Ordo Church, Canon Law is only followed and distorted in order to persecute Catholics.

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twoweims
This idea seems plausible. Whenever I have to attend the N.O. I do have a desire to "climb the walls". This may be a good fit. 😉
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Dr Bobus
Some years ago when places like this were being built, those with a grain of common sense said they don't look like a church, more like a bowling alley--airplane hangar, or gym. Finally, after these buildings and those who wanted them have driven Catholics away, the function of the design is finally realized by all.
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philosopher
The old chapel at University of St. Thomas- Houston, was square and had a glass- see through wall behind the alter. I was a new Catholic at the time (early 90's) and asked a priest why this was so, b/c I found it a distraction to prayer and focusingon the mass. I'll never forget what the Basilian father said. It was symbolic of Christ going out in the city. He added, when you look out at the city at mass, and see all the activity, cars driving, people walking their dogs etc., know that Christ is out there with them also. I just shook my head.
The new chapel is some what better but still based on modernism and designed by the famous atheist architect Philip Johnson. Why UST couldn't find a Catholic architect with a love of classical Latin civilization is beyond me. It was a big disappointment to many orthodox-Catholics.
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Ivan Tomas
Such bowling-hangar-gym-buildings are EXACTLY what Novus Ordo religion needs. It fits perfectly, in terms of transition to achieving the purpose of serving what it was built for in that form.
For loss and apostasy from the Catholic Faith!
Which was done with the same goal as the so-called Novus Ordo!
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philosopher
Architecture is definitely an expression of theology and worldview.
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The Fourth Horseman
@philosopher Most churches like this don't even call it a church anymore, it's a "gathering space" with a "worship area" and one has to hunt for the "tabernacle room". I stopped in to one of the like with the tabernacle in the back of church, opposite the altar, to pray in reparation for all the ingratitude and indifference shown. A younger gentleman came in with a book bag, sat down no more than 8 feet from the tabernacle, put his feet up on the chair in front of him, and sat there sipping on coffee and surfing with his phone like he was at the mall. Then he dialed someone and proceeded to talk as he walked the length of the room and out into the hall. Me thinks, ain't no way a guy like this believes in the True Presence. Or if he does, he thinks Christ is such a loving God that He somehow doesn't care about irreverence. A sign of the times.
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philosopher
When possible, I look for ways to rebel against this zeitgeist that formed the ugly worship spaces architecturally and the mentality of the tabernacle phone surfing hipster. If the church or chapel doesn't have classical Catholic elements i.e. a traditional setting I won't set foot in the place.
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philosopher
Truthfully, it doesn't even look like a church, but more like a multipurpose activity center. It fails to radiate any atmosphere of the sacred.
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DrMaria
How much longer do these false shepherds think that Our Lord will tolerate their blasphemy and destruction of HIS Church - and remain silent without any retribution?
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Cath intruth
They do not believe in God.
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