ASK FATHER: Is the dome of St. Peter’s in Rome turning black?

UPDATE: I received a note from a friend in DC.

St Peter’s dome reminds me of what’s happening in DC. There is a form of black mold we are spending millions mitigating on a regular basis.

I received a question from a reader…

QUAERITUR:

Hello Father Z, I wondered if you could confirm first hand — and perhaps post about it — if this is actually happening and if it’s ever happened before? It’s rather ominous. I’ve never seen it in the hundreds and hundreds of pictures available of Saint Peter’s Basilica except for this recent one.

https://stlouiscatholic.wordpress.com/2023/09/22/ca-reepy/

Firstly, although I arrive in Rome (as I write) tomorrow, I was there during last April and May.  I can attest that, at the time, and even the October ’22, that the cupola of San Pietro was getting markedly darker.  I spoke about this with The Great Roman™ who concurred.

However, last spring it seemed to me that more than one dome in Rome was getting darker.   It seems not to be restricted to St. Peter’s.

This leads me to wonder if there is perhaps something in the rain that is different, or something in the air.  St. Peter’ dome had a fairly recent restoration.  If it was treated with something, perhaps it is changing color with exposure.   Perhaps the stone or treatment is oxidizing.

I don’t want – in the first place – to run to the “It’s a sign of bad things that are being done!” camp.  That said, even if it is being caused by something explicable in natural terms, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t also “A sign of bad things that are being done!”

After all, it was under that dome that a ritual bowl of a demonic cult was place on the altar, above the bones of the Apostle.  That can’t be good.     In the garden behind the Basilica there was a rite honoring a demon.  The demonic statuette was hauled into the Basilica and then also into the Synod (“walking together”) Hall pretty much drawing an X on the spot.

Furthermore, and this veers into the subjective, in the rare times that I have forced myself to go to St. Peter’s over the last couple of years (e.g., to take care of something at the “Vatican Bank” where I have accounts or go to the Mass for the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage) I have felt so creepy that didn’t even want to pass beyond the colonnade.   As a matter of fact, on my bank run, I didn’t.  I stood outside the square and looked in without entering and even then I felt like I had been spiritually slimed and that I needed a shower.  It was rather like there was an invisible fog to push into in order to be in the square.  I am not the only one I know who has had this same sensation near San Pietro.

And I remind the readers that the obelisk in the center of the square was exorcised and placed there not just as a decoration but also as a kind of “ward” against demonic influence.

If there is some place in Rome that the Enemy would attack and try to occupy, it would be San Pietro and environs.

Hence, during my Roman days, I tend to stay on my side of the river, in my happy zone, where I know all the cobblestones and they know me.