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First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

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vFunct ◴[08 May 25 17:52 UTC] No.43929103[source]▶
The whole Catholic aesthetic is amazing. Really is the tops.
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1. xhevahir ◴[08 May 25 18:37 UTC] No.43929680[source]▶
Seems like Protestants and people in majority-Protestant countries are struck by the bells-and-smells but I think the Catholic Church isn't especially distinctive in this regard. Catholics favor a pretty muted look to things compared with the Eastern churches.
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2. anon291 ◴[08 May 25 21:50 UTC] No.43931716[source]▶
No it's the opposite. The eastern churches are very thread bare. Catholics have icons statues and every other kind of art whereas the eastern church went through iconoclasm. A lot of the eastern stuff today is due to influence from the west. This is especially true of the eastern Catholics.

For example, the Kerala church was so against statues and images that basically all the art we have from them are crosses. This was characteristic of the church of the east. The eastern Orthodox went through iconoclasms and some even have issues with statues still.