Reviled by Satan is the beautiful, right? Why did everything get so ugly so quickly in the 1960s? Is the answer left to conjecture? In the murky sea of making everything modern, some lovely treasures were squashed in that epoch. In America, they just threw everything into dumsters while here in Italy, they simply condemned everything to the museums. Intelligible to all is the beautiful with its added flavour to life. With ingrained reserve many are slow to bring back the beautiful, but we laity call for it all back...now!
This former papal throne, a gift to Pope Pius IX by the King of Savoia, is now stuck in the museum of the old Papal Court in the Palazzo Laterano in Rome (through fox manoeuvres the "liberals" wanted the papacy to look "poor" so as to appeal more to us moderns). This chair epitomised so much that was noble about the Papacy. It is so awe-inspiring and I so love it (my cigar-chomping connections in the mafia want to steal it back so it'll be used again by the popes)! Let's pray for a return to the mores of beauty! In hindsight, we pilgrims want to be overawed by the beautiful and we don't want the Papacy to just "look poor!"
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