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Thursday, April 10, 2008




SCHOENBORN ATTEMPTS DAMAGE CONTROL

VIENNA (Reuters) - Vienna's Roman Catholic cardinal said on Wednesday that he regrets the exhibition of a homoerotic version of Christ's Last Supper in a museum linked to his diocese....

Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, archbishop of Vienna, said he had backed the exhibition without knowing the detailed contents.

"I obviously would not have agreed to have blasphemous or pornographic works exhibited. I therefore explicitly regret that a work of this kind was exhibited without my knowledge," the cardinal said in a statement....

But he also defended Hrdlicka as one of Austria's most notable living artists who deserved such a retrospective.

"Hrdlicka...probably more than any other living artist, has devoted himself to the suffering and downtrodden human being and has appealed for "compassion" with the "Passion," he said.


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So am I supposed to believe that "one of Austria's most notable living artists" had a portfolio of blasphemous art that has never been exhibited before? Or am I supposed to believe that Cardinal Schoenborn is so naive that he didn't know that Hrdlicka painted homoerotic art? This sort of naivety is elevated to the cardinalate? Somehow I don't think so.

At the very least the director who was responsible for hanging this exhibit ought to be summarily fired if Cardinal Schoenborn wants us to believe in his innocence. I haven't heard of a firing yet. Surely if one had occurred, the fact would be included in this article. Anything less makes this "excuse" offered by the Cardinal to ring excessively hollow.

Hat tip to NOR for the link.



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