Church of the Santíssima Trinidad at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima

WE should never judge the interior disposition of someone who commits suicide. I cannot help but wonder though if the man who recently killed himself in Fatima, Portugal inside the Church of the Santíssima Trinidad, a hideous monstrosity that typifies Vatican II architecture, might not have been deterred or consoled if he were in an actual Catholic Church, if perhaps he had spied the sympathetic, other-worldly glance of a plaster saint, seen gold stars twinkling on the ceiling or sensed the love of Our Lady of Fatima through a striking image of her. We should pity those who go searching for meaning in sanctuaries built for men, not God.

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