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I've looked all over the net for info on these...Unfortunately, it's not stuff that's "interesting" enough for wikipedia, seemingly. And my skill at structuring Google queries is beaten by the questions.
A bit of background: This is a sci-fi...thing...being written by me and a co-author. We may publish, may not. Essentially, it's a spinoff of stories generated through an RPG based off a novel series, so publishing would require us to "file off the serial numbers" of the setting, which (given the setting) is somewhat hard.
Now, for assorted reasons, my co-author (not Catholic, not even Christian, though they grew up Protestant) decided they wanted to challenge me. And have their character (an Italian) become Catholic, like my character (an American) - on-camera. We've done some exploration with it, but we're rapidly reaching where my detail knowledge runs out.
Hence my questions:
1. Do Catholic parish churches in Italy even use pews as Americans know of them? Never been overseas, and I know not to take what I see on TV (ie, massive Papal masses, or basilicas like St Peter's) as normative for, say, a small parish somewhere.
2. It's been a long, long time since CCD class for me, and while I know the terms for church architecture by instinct, it'd be nice to have a guideline/illustration for my co-author of what I mean when I speak of the narthex, apse, etc - and for me, since it's been, as noted, years since CCD. Floor plans for (Catholic, preferably older) churches...anyone know where to look?
(Edit: I should add some detail - the church I'm thinking of is a parish church, sort of small, based (architecturally) off the parish I most frequently went to Mass at as a kid (not always; it wasn't my territorial parish); I can't describe it architecturally, don't have the vocabulary...but there are pictures on its facebook page which might help someone with more of a clue?)
Also edited the subject line to be more useful.
I've looked all over the net for info on these...Unfortunately, it's not stuff that's "interesting" enough for wikipedia, seemingly. And my skill at structuring Google queries is beaten by the questions.
A bit of background: This is a sci-fi...thing...being written by me and a co-author. We may publish, may not. Essentially, it's a spinoff of stories generated through an RPG based off a novel series, so publishing would require us to "file off the serial numbers" of the setting, which (given the setting) is somewhat hard.
Now, for assorted reasons, my co-author (not Catholic, not even Christian, though they grew up Protestant) decided they wanted to challenge me. And have their character (an Italian) become Catholic, like my character (an American) - on-camera. We've done some exploration with it, but we're rapidly reaching where my detail knowledge runs out.
Hence my questions:
1. Do Catholic parish churches in Italy even use pews as Americans know of them? Never been overseas, and I know not to take what I see on TV (ie, massive Papal masses, or basilicas like St Peter's) as normative for, say, a small parish somewhere.
2. It's been a long, long time since CCD class for me, and while I know the terms for church architecture by instinct, it'd be nice to have a guideline/illustration for my co-author of what I mean when I speak of the narthex, apse, etc - and for me, since it's been, as noted, years since CCD. Floor plans for (Catholic, preferably older) churches...anyone know where to look?
(Edit: I should add some detail - the church I'm thinking of is a parish church, sort of small, based (architecturally) off the parish I most frequently went to Mass at as a kid (not always; it wasn't my territorial parish); I can't describe it architecturally, don't have the vocabulary...but there are pictures on its facebook page which might help someone with more of a clue?)
Also edited the subject line to be more useful.
