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Sacred Art and Architecture in the Teaching of the Church

The right use of images remained a concern of the Church’s pastors in the centuries after Trent, and one of the most significant documents was Pope Benedict XIV’s Brief Sollicitudini Nostrae of 1745, which provided a concise summary of current questions. However, it was only in the twentieth century that the Supreme Magisterium of the Church made general pronouncements about sacred art and its relationship with the sacred liturgy.

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Fr Uwe Michael Lang, a priest of the London Oratory, is a staff member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and a Consultor to the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff. From 2008 to 2011, he was the Coordinator of the Master’s programme in “Architecture, Sacred Art and Liturgy” at the Università Europea di Roma/Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum.

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