The EWTN News portal (January 30, 2026) reports that Vatican authorities have denied plans to open a restaurant on the terrace of St. Peter’s Basilica while admitting considerations to expand an existing café serving coffee and gelato. The basilica’s communications office claims this would “reduce the concentration of visitors in the basilica and promote a more contemplative atmosphere.” This grotesque trivialization of sacred space exposes the conciliar sect’s systematic profanation of Holy Places.
Sacred Space Reduced to Tourist Amusement
The very proposal to expand commercial activities atop Christendom’s greatest basilica constitutes sacrilege. Res sacrae (sacred things) demand reverence, not espresso machines. Michelangelo’s dome – conceived as a “triumph of the Cross” (Pius XI, Quas Primas) – now serves as backdrop for ice cream consumption. The conciliar administrators treat the Mother Church of Catholicism as a theme park, violating Canon 1178 of the 1917 Code which forbids profane uses in sacred edifices. Their justification that “some spaces would be made available to expand the small refreshment area” echoes Judas’ complaint about the “waste” of precious ointment (John 12:4-5) – reducing eternal values to utilitarian calculations.
Theological Bankruptcy of “Sober Style” Defilement
The claim that a “sober style appropriate to the context” could render food service compatible with sacred architecture reveals the modernist heresy of immanentism. Sacredness isn’t a decorative backdrop but the sine qua non of consecrated space. The 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici explicitly forbade “markets, taverns, or inns” (Can. 1178 §2) in churches, a prohibition the conciliar sect tramples with gelato carts. The article’s reference to “the needs of pilgrims” inverts the hierarchy of values – pilgrims seek sanctification, not cappuccinos. As Pius XI declared: “The Church must directly and immediately pursue not temporal but eternal goods” (Quas Primas).
Contemplation Through Consumerism: A Modernist Heresy
The assertion that expanding commercial facilities promotes “a more contemplative atmosphere” constitutes theological fraud. True contemplation flows from vacare Deo (being empty for God), not digestive processes. The conciliar sect replaces adoration with appetite, fulfilling Pius X’s warning about modernists reducing religion to “an inward sentiment” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis 14). The photographic evidence shows tourists drinking coffee beneath Michelangelo’s Pietà – a perfect symbol of the neo-church’s crucifixion of sacred tradition on the cross of convenience.
Systematic Desecration as Ecclesiological Symptom
This sacrilege isn’t isolated but symptomatic of the conciliar revolution’s essence. When Bergoglio turned St. Peter’s into a vaccination center (2021) and Francis transformed the Sistine Chapel into a jazz venue (2023), they prepared the ground for today’s café expansion. The Syllabus of Errors condemned precisely such “equality of all forms of worship” (Proposition 77) that treats churches as multipurpose halls. The article’s silence about the basilica’s primary purpose – offering the Most Holy Sacrifice – speaks volumes. As the 1917 Code mandated: “The primary end of churches is divine worship; secondary ends may be permitted only insofar as they’re not foreign to church sanctity” (Can. 1164 §2).
The conciliar sect’s transformation of St. Peter’s into a spiritual snack bar confirms its apostate nature. True Catholics weep seeing Christ’s words fulfilled: “My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves” (Matthew 21:13) – thieves who steal sacred space to sell profane comforts.
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Vatican denies it will open restaurant on terrace of St. Peter’s Basilica (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 30.01.2026