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Pope Francis Welcomes ‘Piss Christ’ Artist in Vatican
Breitbart ^ | June 26,2023 | THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D

Posted on 06/26/2023 10:29:37 PM PDT by NoLibZone

ROME — Pope Francis stunned the faithful this weekend when he welcomed some 200 avant-garde artists in the Sistine Chapel, including photographer Andres Serrano, creator of the controversial “Piss Christ” work showing a crucifix submerged in a glass of urine.

The pontiff received the artists to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vatican’s collection of contemporary art, telling them that like the biblical prophets, “you confront things that at times are uncomfortable; you criticize today’s false myths and new idols, its empty talk, the ploys of consumerism, the schemes of power.”

“You can see things both in depth and from afar, like sentinels who strain their eyes, peering into the horizon and discerning deeper realities,” the pope told the assembled artists. “In doing so, you are called to reject the allure of that artificial, skin-deep beauty so popular today and often complicit with economic mechanisms that generate inequality.”

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1 posted on 06/26/2023 10:29:37 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

“Pope Francis “

is a nut bar level 6


2 posted on 06/26/2023 10:31:59 PM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: NoLibZone

NOT my Pope!


3 posted on 06/26/2023 10:34:02 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: NoLibZone

What kind of dressing would you like with that word salad, Il Papa? Nice try to clean up a nasty, blasphemous “work of art”.


4 posted on 06/26/2023 10:43:04 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: NoLibZone

I don’t follow him...he’s an evil charlatan....


5 posted on 06/26/2023 10:56:01 PM PDT by cherry
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To: NoLibZone

6 posted on 06/26/2023 11:11:01 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

So humble and charitable!


7 posted on 06/26/2023 11:12:55 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
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To: Trump_Triumphant

Those are for everyone else.


8 posted on 06/26/2023 11:13:47 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: NoLibZone

OK, Lord and Savior, it is time to end this Heretic’s “reign.”


9 posted on 06/26/2023 11:16:59 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: NoLibZone

He needs to find a different religion to represent because he sure doesn’t represent Catholic Christians.


10 posted on 06/26/2023 11:46:50 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: Telepathic Intruder

What a hateful looking SOB


11 posted on 06/26/2023 11:57:46 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Telepathic Intruder

the mask slipped that day


12 posted on 06/27/2023 12:10:18 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: NoLibZone

I honestly dislike the hypocrisy within the Catholic church. They openly condemn homosexuals and pedos, yet spend millions covering up those acts within their clergy. Well in the past, nowadays they seem to promote it, maybe thats to calm down the lawsuits and apease the agenda.

Director Kevin Smith, granted a lefty but a Catholic, makes a movie (Dogma), and recieves death threats from the Catholic side for a humorous view of that hypocrisy in his film. Yet a man that puts Christ in a jar of piss and calls it art is praised by the dope...I meant poop...Pope, knew I would get the spelling right eventually.


13 posted on 06/27/2023 1:11:41 AM PDT by GunHoardingCapitalist (The cake is a lie!)
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To: NoLibZone

I’m amazed Piss Christ is still alive, 30 years later.


14 posted on 06/27/2023 1:19:21 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: NoLibZone

This Pope is such a disgrace to the church, and more
importantly the Holy Trinity.

I hope the next one is more like John Paul from the Reagan
years.


15 posted on 06/27/2023 1:39:59 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: NoLibZone

Evil resides in this anti-pope. He’s NOT the Pope, he’s squatting in the seat.


16 posted on 06/27/2023 2:29:01 AM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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Pope-Sick-O

He is doing to the Catholic Church what the G-dless “progressive” deviates are doing to America


17 posted on 06/27/2023 2:53:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Sun Tzu: "An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes." )
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To: NoLibZone

Has any Pope ever celebrated and honored someone who blasphemed Christ himself such as Serrano? Is there anything too sinful for this Pope to embrace? No wonder millions of people have fallen away from the church.


18 posted on 06/27/2023 3:09:31 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: NoLibZone

Strange as it may seem to some, but Bergoglio has little regard for Jesus CHRIST.


19 posted on 06/27/2023 3:32:19 AM PDT by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

That brings to mind the Gospel story of the woman with hemorrhage who touched Jesus’s cloak out of faith she would be cured, and then Jesus immediately turned and punched her out.


20 posted on 06/27/2023 3:41:51 AM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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