Scandal: Catholic University Puts Mary amid Prostitutes

TFP Student Action ^ | 03-10-05 | TFP Student Action

[Squawk 8888]

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.

[BenLurkin]

Since when are firearms considered a vice on the level of pornography and prostitution? These students need a check-up from the neck-up.

[Aquinasfan]

Ave Maria
Benedictine
Christendom
U Dallas
Magdalene
Steubenville
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas More
Our Lady of Corpus Christi
Redeemer Pacific
St. Mary's College of Madonna
Southern Catholic College

The only Catholic colleges that matter. Forget the rest.

[Gingersnap]

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.

[Rutles4Ever]

The over/under on Catholic bashing on this thread is set at Post 18. Any takers?

[Borges]

Is Bob Jones III a Freeper?

[Pyro7480]

I don't know if the author considered it a vice. Those words describing the display are taken from the Dayton News article.

[EternalHope]

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.

[Borges]

Well it should shock aethetically. Not crudely as much of the 'artists' who (mis)use this mantra do.

[uncbob]

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

Only way this BS and all the rest of the left wing madfness that is occurring on college campiuse all over the USA is IF the ALUMNI QUIT DONATING

I cut my alma mater off decades ago and tell them they are TOO DAMN LIBERAL every time I get called for $$$$

BUT as long as the Football and Basketball teams are winning the ALUMNI dig deep

[Borges]

should be 'aesthetically'

[Salvation]

Sounds like it is time to FReep the University of Dayton.

[uncbob]

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".)

Only from the left side of the aisle

[DannyTN]

"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."

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.

[jonrick46]

Why not have a video of a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary being dragged from a chain behind a pickup truck. Why not show it on "Jackass" or "America's Funniest Videos." The left is so full of hate that their obsessive compulsive disorder is causing much time figuring out how to feed their bigotry against Christians and Jews. Someday there will be a reckoning for their self-destructive behavior. Read'em and weep. Time is marching on and the end will come soon.

[NJ Neocon]

Looks like it will be "Over" 18. I am surprised (pleasantly).

[NJ Neocon]

"Our Lady of Fatima asked us to make reparation for the sins committed against her Immaculate Heart."

Huh?

[NetValue]

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.

[Graymatter]

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."