The Catholic Church in Rome on Tuesday highly condemned as “offending as well as inappropriate” a funeral procession outside a church in the Italian resources in which the coffin was curtained in a Nazi flag.
Photos as well as video clips of the scene outside St. Lucia church complying with the Monday funeral solution were released by the Italian online information portal Open. They revealed around 2 loads individuals collected outside the church as the swastika-draped coffin arised, yelling “Presente!” with their best arm expanded in the fascist salute.
In a declaration on Tuesday, the Vicariate of Rome highly condemned the scene as well as emphasized that neither the church clergyman, neither the clergyman that commemorated the funeral service, understood what was mosting likely to take place outdoors after the funeral Mass finished.
It called the swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag “a horrible sign intransigent with Christianity”.
” This ideological as well as terrible exploitation, specifically complying with an act of praise near a spiritual location, stays major, offending as well as inappropriate for the church neighborhood of Rome as well as for all individuals of a good reputation in our city,” it stated.
The declaration priced estimate the church clergyman, the Rev. Alessandro Zenobbi, as distancing himself as well as the church from “every word, motion as well as sign made use of outside the church, which are credited to extremist ideological backgrounds much from the message of the Scripture of Christ.”
Pope Francis is practically the diocesan of Rome, yet he delegates the everyday monitoring of the diocese to his vicar, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis.
