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Catholic school is forced to cover up a brand new statue after 'unfortunate' design showing ...
Daily Mail ^ | 11/21/2017 | Stephen Johnson

Posted on 11/22/2017 2:13:15 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

FULL TITLE: Catholic school is forced to cover up a brand new statue after 'unfortunate' design showing a kneeling boy and a saint

A Catholic boys school has been forced to cover up a brand new statue after a rather unfortunate design created a storm on social media.

Blackfriars Priory School in Adelaide last week unveiled a statue of St Dominic handing a young boy a loaf of bread.

However the design featuring a boy kneeling at the foot of the 12th century Spanish-born saint has caused embarrassment to the inner-city school, which teaches boys from kindergarten to year 12.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Responsibility2nd

The kid is standing, not kneeling.


41 posted on 11/22/2017 2:54:11 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: pfflier

I never said all priests were perverts. The double meaning is quite clear in this statue. Why is it not a chunk of bread, or a slice? Or why not a Communion Wafer


42 posted on 11/22/2017 2:54:54 PM PST by LukeL
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To: Responsibility2nd

Someone didn’t think this through.


43 posted on 11/22/2017 2:57:51 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This was obviously done liked this on purpose. Though back when I was a kid in catholic school in the 1950s this statue would have past muster (the boys would have snickered over it ) the general population of adults would have seen nothing wrong


44 posted on 11/22/2017 2:59:13 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: NorthMountain; Red Badger

You’re painting with a mighty broad bush there, using that term “pervert’ against the majority of FReepers here.

Could it be your Catholicism has been offended and you’re lashing out?

Don’t blame us “perverts” for laughing please. After all - it was a Catholic school that erected this statue. And then covered it up.

And would this even be a issue at all if it were not for the thousands of cases where a pedo priest has offered a little boy some “bread”?


45 posted on 11/22/2017 3:00:08 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: LukeL
I never said you said anything of the sort. My comment was addressed towards groupthink in our society in general.

I do agree with you that the loaf could have been a better depiction although the communion wafer would have looked like a coin and possibly fired up a whole new wave of hysteria.

46 posted on 11/22/2017 3:03:49 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Vaquero

I prefer the statue wearing the burka.


47 posted on 11/22/2017 3:05:32 PM PST by Vehmgericht ( stop)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Doh!


48 posted on 11/22/2017 3:08:17 PM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Did the artist not submit a drawing?

Did no official review the plans/drawing beforehand?


49 posted on 11/22/2017 3:09:13 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Responsibility2nd

...or used the wrong one.


50 posted on 11/22/2017 3:10:34 PM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Where ever there are children there is a possibility of having those who prey on children. Statistics grow along with the size of the sample group. Protection and prevention is paramount of course. But also very important is what is done once a predator is identified. It is a shame a church allowed those who were identified to continue access. This has also became the way our society has been siding with the privacy and ‘feelings’ rights of abusive perverts, etc. over the safety and wellbeing children everywhere (schools, adoption, social groups (boy scouts), etc.


51 posted on 11/22/2017 3:15:35 PM PST by TianaHighrider (Deplorable me)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I would be more offended by the ‘cover up’ making it look like someone in a burka, thus promoting Islam.


52 posted on 11/22/2017 3:23:24 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Responsibility2nd

I calls ‘em as I sees ‘em.

And I will blame the perverts in our perverted culture. Being a pervert (or not) is a choice. Choose wisely.


53 posted on 11/22/2017 3:27:34 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Quite aside from the terrible pose, it’s just not good art on any level. The material is ugly, the sculpting is amateurish and wooden, the child’s proportions are all wrong and the face of the saint looks deeply unhappy. I wouldn’t like it even if it weren’t for the other problem.


54 posted on 11/22/2017 3:40:04 PM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Responsibility2nd

They should ship this to the Vatican. There are plenty of supporters of the current Pontiff who could identify with this image. Maybe place it outside one of the many Lavender Mafia watering holes?


55 posted on 11/22/2017 3:40:35 PM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Red Badger

I set that one up just for ewe. ;-D


56 posted on 11/22/2017 3:42:15 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Vehmgericht
As a typical catholic school wiseguy, I like the Buddy Christ statue


57 posted on 11/22/2017 3:48:51 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: TianaHighrider

Yup. Outstretched hand with the loaf being held sideways with the child reaching up towards it, that would be fine. But a loaf shaped like a male member coming right out of his crotch and with the kid reaching to give him a handjob gesture ? This couldn’t be more blatant and offensive short of having the boy having his mouth right on the end of the (ahem) “loaf.”


58 posted on 11/22/2017 3:51:27 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sometimes a loaf of bread is just a loaf of bread.


59 posted on 11/22/2017 4:20:05 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ohhhh nooooooo. Rofl
That sculptor spent weeks on that project!!! He or she knew DAMN WELL what it was going to look like. It had to be a baguette style bread????

Just so wrong.


60 posted on 11/22/2017 4:23:32 PM PST by Yaelle
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