Rome, episode V

After my tour in the park I have a delightful mushroom Pizza in front of Saint John of Lateran Basilica. I visit the basilica from the inside and have a walk in the internal court, very peaceful!

Inside the basilica confession chairs are present; each one dedicated to one language … what about Arabic? Shouldn’t the Church talk Arabic? It’s maybe our role as Christians in the Middle East to be a living Gospel.

I am a little shocked by people throwing coins over the tomb located under the altar, “a pagan way of doing” I said to myself.

At the end of the day I pass by the Coliseum and admire it from the outside then I visit two Jesuit churches: the church of Gesu and the church of Saint Ignatius where a dome is painted in trompe-l’oeil.

Seeing so many churches everywhere make me insensible emotionally to those beautiful religious artifacts, I ask Jesus for a new faith.