......" So long as they convert to the "right kind" of Catholicism, of course"....
Why would anyone convert to a church that displays 4,000 skulls, venerates them, and creates such things as this.... further naming it after the Immaculate Conception of Mary?
“Skull Chapel” where people worship..even hanging a skeleton under the roof, to be adored and venerated, and this 'in the heart of the Italian capital',.... located beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome, Italy.
What "Kind" of spiritual madness and insanity made the Vatican faithful make this kind of "art" to decorate a place of worship?
Here we have a copy-cat Jesus pictured in the center of these copses
The Church is the burial place of several cardinals, which are in the main central aisle to the alter so you actually walk over their remains to your seat
This church was built by Cardinal Antonio Barberini, who was 'the brother of Pope Urban VIII'.... "the first" church in Rome that was named for the Immaculate Conception of Mary"
Oh, there are more dead people in loads of Catholic churches. And why shouldn’t there be? The sanctuary of a Church is a representation and foretaste of Heaven on Earth. So the churches proclaim the Kingdom of Heaven by jarring visitors with the message: “We don’t fear death. For we know something better lies beyond.” It’s designed to be shocking, but to proclaim the Christian hope in resurrection by doing so.
I’ll tell you something else: MOST churches include a body part of dead person right in the altar! Churches are named after the source of the relics they contain within. (So, no, a church named “Holy Cross” wouldn’t have a body part, but a piece of the cross. And no, Erasmus was a slanderous idiot: since the fragments typically only a fraction of a gram, you could tens of thousands of such relics throughout the world.)
And for another good measure: there are whole bodies of dead people in most major cathedrals and basilicas.