What's up with the Pope's Audience Hall?

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Not really sure what category to put this in, but what is up with the Pope’s Audience Hall? Why does it look like a snake, and why are there no crucifixes or other Christian art in it?
(It’s not a fish eye lense.)
 
Yeah I’ve wondered the same thing. I’ve seen the fish-eye lense picture that people post and everyone always says “its not really like a snake, its just distorted because of the lense.” But when you google an image of the exterior of the building, it straight up has a construction like that of a snake head. I don’t get why they approved it or keep it around.
 
Yeah, not necessarily. The Israelites, when bitten, were told to look upon the bronze statue and they were healed.
Just seems like a really bizarre choice to make for the architecture.
 
That snake/serpent auditorium is hideous. It’s disgraceful. Evil. There, I said it.

Christ, come quickly!
 
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It only looks like that in order to match with the secret serpentine passageways underground.
 
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If it isn’t apparent to everyone by now, the architecture industry played a huge joke on the Catholic Churches for aroun 30-40 years. They convinced the Church leaders to accept hideous designs for Churches and other buildings. You will note, there are not that many ugly modern architecture buildings in existence. Indeed, many of these buildings go directly against the tenants of modern architecture. The only way to explain it would be a conspiracy by the architects along the lines of “lets see how dumb the Church is”.
 
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f it isn’t apparent to everyone by now, the architecture industry played a huge joke on the Catholic Churches for aroun 30-40 years. They convinced the Church leaders to accept hideous designs for Churches and other buildings.
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LOL…I bet those living in the middle ages who didn’t like the design of gothic cathedrals said the same thing!
 
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Not really sure what category to put this in, but what is up with the Pope’s Audience Hall? Why does it look like a snake, and why are there no crucifixes or other Christian art in it?
(It’s not a fish eye lense.)
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There is a large bronze Resurrected Christ sculpture on the stage where the pope sits. Whether one thinks it’s a GOOD representation of a resurrected Christ is another matter. The Internet has lots of conspiracy theories about the design. Basically the architect had to find a way to build a hall holding 12,000 people into a very tight space in Vatican City.
 
I would not think that would be the case. At least I know of no contemporaneous writings expressing discontent with those cathedrals.

I think buildings such as the Pope’s Audience Hall will be architectural curiosities 100 to 200 years from now. People will actually debate why their design exists. Indeed, although not a fan of all modern architecture, there is quite a bit of modern and post-modern architecture I like a lot. Many Churches from the last 50 years cannot be slotted into the correct category of modern architecture. There is a rejection of ornament, but the form often do not follow function, and they are only minimalistic in their interior decoration. Indeed, many of our modern churches fall outside of any architecture category as far as I am concern. Unless you want to create a category for ugly 🙂
 
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Why does it look like a snake, and why are there no crucifixes or other Christian art in it?
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Its an audience hall, not a worship sanctuary. Our parish school’s gym is used for large gatherings, but haven’t seen an issue about the lack of Christian art.

Oddly those expressing concern or outrage over seeing a snake are just playing into the sicko claims of Catholic detractors that somehow the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon, and the Pope is the AntiChrist…people need to lighten up instead of playing into their hands.
 
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Seems like the building lacks iconography. Dont mind if it is shaped like a snake.

Gospel Reading for today:

Jesus said to his Apostles:
“Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves;
so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.
But beware of men,
for they will hand you over to courts
and scourge you in their synagogues,
and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake
as a witness before them and the pagans.
When they hand you over,
do not worry about how you are to speak
or what you are to say.
You will be given at that moment what you are to say.
For it will not be you who speak
but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Brother will hand over brother to death,
and the father his child;
children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.
You will be hated by all because of my name,
but whoever endures to the end will be saved.
When they persecute you in one town, flee to another.
Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the towns of Israel
before the Son of Man comes.”
 
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There’s some good answers in this recent thread on the topic…
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Pope Paul VI Audience Hall Moral Theology
Has anybody else seen that the pope’s audience hall looks like the head of a serpent, on the outside and the inside? I find this quite concerning. First that it exists, that somebody had to have approved it, and the fact that it’s only talked about and discussed by those outside the church. As just another reason to prove that the pope is the anti Christ and the church is the whore of babylon. Of anybody has some insight into this subject, i would appreciate hearing it.
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I don’t understand why people say it looks like a snake. I’ve been there before. It doesn’t look like a snake. And there’s a large (albeit odd) statue of Jesus right front and center.

If people want to argue that it is architecturally ugly, then I might agree. It was built in 1971—not really the apex of Catholic architectural achievement. But to say the design is “evil” or anti-Christian is quite a stretch.

Honestly, the architecture doesn’t bother me that much because it’s supposed to be an auditorium. It’s the Churches that look like auditoriums but are supposed to be Churches that bother me far more.
 
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