While joining in the congratulations extended for the initiative to celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of the Paola church to Christ the King, it is sad to note the sorry state of a ‘decorative’ programme completely out of harmony with the architecture of the church.

What the caption of the front page photograph of The Sunday Times of Malta (November 20) calls “major embellishment projects” are, at best, bad taste kitsch that have upset the integrity of Ġużè Damato’s great building. This is a classic example of what I describe to my students as “the immorality of bad taste”.

Have the parish authorities received the approval of the Diocesan Commission for Church Art? This is a pertinent question that needs to be addressed before other misguided and unfortunate projects are taken in hand.

Is the Archbishop’s Curia closing an eye to the artistic disasters taking place? Or has good taste come to an ignoble end?

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