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Roman Catholic AnswerNot all Catholic Churches are ornate, it depends a lot on where it is, and who built it. For instance, several religious orders: the Cistercians, the Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists), the Carthusians, the Camaldolese; and some cultures build very austere or simple Churches. The Gothic style which was so popular in Europe and in American earlier in the twentieth century was much more ornate and it was done primarily to give greater glory to God, and, to a lesser extent, to teach the people. Remember that printing presses were not invented until the last several centuries, and that for the vast majority of the Church's existence since Jesus commissioned her to teach all nations, she had to do so with no printed books, so she did so in sermons written in stone, pictures, statues, paintings, etc. The many statues in many Churches are like a family's album to remember absent family members.
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