In the past three weeks three earthquakes hit Italy and the land is still shaking even today; 25 dead, hundreds of injured, thousands of people homeless, billions of Euros of damages and a lot of fear in the north part of the country and this last one even in the south.
Our thoughts and sympathy goes to all the affected people.
Still there is room for thought in these events; if we take a different look at what happened we can see that among all the buildings that fell down many are ancient buildings and churches. Many monuments belonging to the cultural and historical patrimony of the area are lost with billions of damages and a sense of losing a piece of history. Many churches are fallen and many are unusable, in a town all the three churches are gone. A priest died trying to save a statue of the Madonna from his church hit by the first earthquake, while inside, the second quake hit and all went down.
Many accidents involving churches have happened in Italy over the past decades; some even when the believers were inside worshipping, St Francis of Assisi ( '97 earthquake) and father Pious are just two examples.
Surely these events should bring us to think that something is wrong. How come in the country where is the site of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican, so many churches are falling?
A few days before the second earthquake the pope, trying to defend his house from the many scandals it is going through recently, quoted a verse from the bible where it says that the house built on rock won’t fall,
Matthew 7 vs. 24 – 29. Isn’t it weird that the man that claims to be the one that God talks to and that reveals His will to, gets such a response from God with so many churches falling down? These pictures are only a few examples:
