Desecration of Sacred Art Reveals Modernist Apostasy in Rome
EWTN News (February 4, 2026) reports on the controversial restoration of a fresco in Rome’s fourth-century St. Lawrence Basilica, where an angel painted in 2000 as part of King Umberto II’s funerary monument was altered to resemble Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The likeness drew crowds of secular onlookers, prompting the amateur restorer to whitewash the image after Cardinal Baldassare Reina (Diocese of Rome) condemned its “improper use.” Parish priest Daniele Micheletti admitted the fresco had become a “divisive” tourist attraction, undermining the chapel’s sacred purpose. This spectacle exemplifies the conciliar sect’s surrender of sacred spaces to worldly vanity.