Posted on 05/09/2018 6:14:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Pontifical Council for Culture wanted the focus to be on the Met’s exhibition of fashion, Catholicism and art rather than Monday’s Gala, viewed by many of the faithful as a sacrilegious mockery of the Church.
The Pontifical Council for Culture chose to collaborate with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York because of the Met’s significance to culture and potential global outreach, but officials were unaware of the widely criticized gala that took place on Monday night.
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council, had been wanting for some time for the dicastery to focus on the relationship between fashion, art and faith, and so agreed to collaborate with the exhibition which opens May 10 and runs until October 8.
“We wanted to be involved and those behind it had good intentions,” a Vatican official told the Register. “As the Met is one of the most significant cultural institutions in the world, and our remit is to engage the world, we see it as important.”
But the Vatican was unaware of the Met Gala, and that the evening event would be used by some celebrities to dress up in a way deemed by many to be a sacrilegious mockery of the Church.
The Gala “crossed a line and was openly, brazenly disrespectful,” wrote Piers Morgan, a Catholic talk show host, of the star-studded event which included pop singer Rihanna dressed up as a provocative, sequinned pope and actress Jennifer Lopez wearing a jewel-encrusted multi-coloured cross. “By doing so, [the Met] confirmed itself as an organisation of rank double standards, because everyone knows they'd have never dared do it to Islam or Judaism.”
The Met Gala is the annual curtain-raising event for its Summer exhibit, this year called Heavenly Bodies — Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
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Where is the Mohammad dress-up contest? Hmmmm? Crickets.
As an outlander living in flyover country, I didn't know that. I have never heard of the "the Met" until this story came out.
As a Catholic, no big whoop... our God is bigger than them
One of the world’s greatest museums.
Heads should roll over this abomination.
“...wrote Piers Morgan, a Catholic talk show host...”
Oh yeah he surely wants to Church to crack down on this type of garbage. Ok
Freegards
The word “gala” originates from the word “gallows” as in going to watch a hanging as some sort of celebration.
The tone of the article makes it sound like the Vatican is just the hapless victim here.
They should have known what to expect out of that crowd by this point in time, and simply said no.
Compromise with the world NEVER works out well and as religious leaders, they should know that by now. It ain’t rocket science.
They CHOSE to go along with it. They have no one to blame but themselves for being involved.
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