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architect Fuksas, interviewed by La Stampa January 19, 2011 on the criticism of the card. Ravasi a large part of the sacred contemporary in his keynote address of January 17, 2011 at La Sapienza, without considering the merits of the criticism ravasiana, responded with an accusation against the Church, so false as ungenerous:

I must say that the Church, apart from the ' aesthetics, ethics should also be concerned that at this time in Italy seems to be very low.

Clare and subtle allusion to Berlusconi case-Ruby. This reaction is decomposed
dell'archistar very childish attempt to disregard the opinion that hurts, trying to distract public attention with a sexy topic, but completely out of place.


But this response reactive dell'archistar, inadvertently sheds light on his intellectual universe in which ethics and aesthetics are not so much split as separate, almost opposite.

Conversely, mental universe of the Bible, the Good, the subject of ethics, and the Beautiful, the subject of aesthetics, are united, so that one word "TOV " means equally good and beautiful.
The universe should be at least known by the designers, especially superstars, and from customers - alias bishops - and consultants - alias liturgists - should also be taken up, being part of mindset of believers.

Dome of Creation, the Basilica of San Marco, Venice

TOV is a central element first account of creation: it is the Judgement of God on each of his works taken individually (Gen 1,4.10.12.18.21.25) and finally all together:

God saw everything that he had made, and it was very good-nice (Gen 1:31).

The works created by God, in the opinion of their Creator, they are really beautiful and good.

This rating indicates the divine vision that God has tuttto what he did, it is written: "God saw all he had done . The revelation of this divine justice becomes the foundation of the vision - perception - understanding that the creatures of the created reality, it is written: " in your light we see light " (Ps 36 [35], 10), whereby detection we share the vision of God that springs from the two primordial sentiments, the wonder and trust, from which they originate religion, philosophy and arts.
Since all that exists is good, any idea of \u200b\u200bduality is condemned as false, not true: Zoroastrian, Platonic, Gnostic, Manichaean, Cathar, Bogomil.
Since all created nature is beautiful, it is the foundation sure to human creativity according to the divine commandment primordial

Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it, have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth (Gen 1:28)

In the first Judgement of God ethics and aesthetics are one and since this view of God is revealed, it is also true. Divine unity of the transcendental. Unfortunately, the tragic history of the West is marked by the separation of transcendental and their submission to the desires of the sentient subject, and wishful thinking. Brame that reveal the inner dark abyss from which crowds of crazy thoughts that engulf the gross creation of God, including its unsurpassable the human couple.

Now, in hindsight the card. Ravasi is not limited to strong criticism of the only buildings of contemporary worship, but in expressing his negative opinion on it also extends to the secular buildings, so his criticism is directed more specifically to contemporary architecture as a whole. This is evident from the title of his lectio " Open doors between the temple and the square ", a title that is his sense of religious and Christian in the third and last point of lectio where citing the opinion of Pavel Evdokimov Orthodox theologian, Cardinal says

between the square and the temple there should be a locked door, but a threshold open [...] the wind of the Spirit of God has to scroll through the sacred hall and the plaza where human activity takes place. It is found, so genuine and profound soul of the Incarnation ... What the critics

ravasiana faces the whole of contemporary architecture is quite clear in this case, where after criticizing the deafness / opacity of many churches:

think of 'deafness', all'inospitalità, dispersal, opacity of many churches drawn up without regard to the voice and silence in the liturgy and the Assembly, watching and listening, all'ineffabilità and communion.

extends an implicit criticism of the secular buildings which compares the churches, joining in the condemnation for anti-humanism and the sacred buildings, both secular:

Churches where you are lost as in a conference room, distracted as in a sports hall, rolled like a fronton, brutalized as a house pretentious and vulgar.

In this architecture, as the card. Ravasi, you are lost, distracted, overwhelmed, abbruttiti, whether in churches, conference rooms, houses or fronton. Why?
I believe that the finding of anti-humanism shared by many contemporary buildings, sacred and profane, Contemporary has its roots in atheism, as he masterfully shows the father de Lubac, in the phenomenal diagnosis of our times is that the drama of atheistic humanism .

tragic and scandalous is not that contemporary architects, plasamati this atheistic culture, programmatically create buildings that postulate the nonexistence of God tragic and outrageous is that the flower of Christian culture, liturgists and bishops, consultants and contractors, are this deafness deaf, blind opacity. For it is written: "The fool thinks : there is no God" (Ps 14 [13], 1), and again: " The Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? "(Luke 18:8). When it is created used to build churches that are no longer temples of the living God, cry out against this abuse. The intellectual power of these manufacturers will stand up to testify against them, because they have erected idols and their sanctuaries.