Posted on 03/10/2005 8:32:51 AM PST by concernedAmerican1
If someone hung a picture of your mother amid images of prostitutes and pornography, would you be upset? Would you protest? I’m sure you would.
In fact, the Blessed Mother is being insulted in this fashion at the Catholic University of Dayton, where an “art” exhibit in the Rike Center Gallery depicts “Mary amid images of prostitutes, pornography and firearms that has shocked some students and professors…” (Dayton Daily News, 03-07-05)
Even worse – the University of Dayton is one of the nation's ten largest Catholic universities, founded in 1850 by the Society of Mary, whose particular mission is to honor the Mother of God. Yet today they promote this blasphemy against Our Lady.
Please contact Dr. Curran, president of the University of Dayton and demand its removal. To sign a message of protest, go to: http://tfp.org/student_action/activities/protests/ud_protest.php
After you sign your protest, give his office a call. Be polite and firm. Tell him how you feel about it. Ask him to remove the exhibit immediately and issue an apology. Tell him you cannot understand how a Catholic institution dedicated to honor Mary can insult her like this.
Please call today.
Dr. Daniel J. Curran, Ph.D. Direct: 937-229-4122 Main: 937-229-1000 Fax: 937-229-3396 Email: president@notes.udayton.edu
I just got off the phone with Dr. Curran’s office. The receptionist claimed that the offensive exhibit was just an exercise of “academic freedom.” My blood pressure went up a few notches, to put it mildly.
You see, Our Lady of Fatima asked us to make reparation for the sins committed against her Immaculate Heart. It’s heartbreaking that Catholics are insulting Our Lady when they ought to be honoring her.
Please act without delay. Thank you for your love for Our Lady. You would do a good deed if you send this message to your friends and acquaintances.
Trusting in the triumph of her Immaculate Heart,
John E. Ritchie, TFP Student Action, www.TFPStudentAction.org
OTOH Jesus didn't minister to the righteous. He spent a lot of time with thieves, tax collectors and prostitutes and I think no less of Him.
The only Catholic colleges that matter. Forget the rest.
Let's see this "artist" pull a similar stunt with an image of Fatima. How many seconds would elapse before CAIR had the exhibit shut down, the university denounced, and a lawsuit in the making?
I'm guessing 7.9 seconds.
The over/under on Catholic bashing on this thread is set at Post 18. Any takers?
Is Bob Jones III a Freeper?
I don't know if the author considered it a vice. Those words describing the display are taken from the Dayton News article.
According to many of the enlightened ones in our cultural elite, the purpose of art is "to shock and offend". (They really believe this, teach it in the classroom, and use it as justification for public grants supporting their "art".)
Guess that means this stuff must be pretty good. 'Cause I'm certainly offended.
Well it should shock aethetically. Not crudely as much of the 'artists' who (mis)use this mantra do.
should be 'aesthetically'
Sounds like it is time to FReep the University of Dayton.
Not only that, Jesus descended from a prostitute. The prostitute Rahab that was the great great great grandmother of King David. To me that shows the greatness of God's love, that He would choose such people to be part of His redemptive plan.
I haven't seen the display so I'll reserve judgement on it.
Looks like it will be "Over" 18. I am surprised (pleasantly).
Huh?
The world needs the next pope to have a "package" made of brass. More probably though he will be lactescent. It will be the final step in the subjugation of the Catholic Church to the evils of the modern world.
With a little help from bugmenot.com, I got into this: http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0308artshow.html
...where I read that the exhibit causing offense is the work of Derek Cracco.
"Cracco, 36, an assistant professor of art and art history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, contends that by working too hard to create a 'sexless' Mary, the church achieved just the opposite; it 'hypersexualized' itself.
...
'She was a normal person with normal desires, not good or bad,' Cracco said...
"In one collage, Cracco's Mary stands in her familiar, open-armed pose...surrounded by images of Nevada prostitutes, shown on their actual business cards the artist obtained in Las Vegas." (Anyone doubt the man's motives? Just visualize this and the matter is settled.)
The university provost said the exhibit "is an opportunity for UD, as a major Catholic university, to take the lead and provide interpretation of the exhibit and ask tough questions in a public forum." He asked other university officials to view Cracco's collages and they saw it as "an extraordinary opportunity to encourage constructive dialog."
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