Parish Churches, Patrimony of the Community or of the Diocese? Community Interventions and Supervision of the Dioceses

Carla Zito

doi:10.17979/aarc.2019.6.0.6238

Authors

Carla Zito Independent researcher (Turin)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2019.6.0.6238

Keywords:

community, heritage, parish churches, arbitrariness, ecclesiastical legislation

Abstract

My intervention was born as a reflection on the Census of churches of Turin diocese, organized by the CEI (Italian Episcopal Conference). Through my studies, I’ve observed the case of Turin ecclesiastical heritage built in the second half of the 20th century. A great number of places of worship have changed their historical validity due to arbitrariness of choices and interventions.
I’ve always supported the thesis that this religious buildings are an important patrimony for the urban history and expression of the pastoral liturgy of the diocese in Italy and that the community is fundamental to the birth and the management of a parish centre. Now I think that it is necessary to consolidate project strategies and fix best-practices to preserve the ecclesiastic heritage from everyone’s action.
Generally speaking, what contemporary buildings can be part of the Church heritage? How far can priests and communities decide, independently, to intervene?

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Author Biography

Carla Zito, Independent researcher (Turin)

Carla Zito (Naples, Italy, 1978). Architect, Ph.D. in “History of Architecture and Town Planning” at the Polytechnic of Turin. From 2008 to 2011 had a Post‐doctoral fellowship researcher about the relationship between Architecture and Liturgy in Turin (1957‐2007). She was a speaker in International Congress about contemporary religious architecture.
She is a member of Commission of Sacred Art of the Diocese of Turin and collaborate with Diocese to different projects (Censimento chiese CEI). She wrote the book: Casa tra le case. Architettura di chiese a Torino durante l’episcopato del cardinal Michele Pellegrino (1965‐77), Effatà, 2013 and differents articles about religious architecture on specialised books and Magazines. Now she is a teacher of History of Art in a High school.

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