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Replace ‘George Floyd’ Christ With ‘Uncontroversial’ Art, Catholic University Student Government Says
Catholic World Report ^ | 12/9/21 | Kevin J. Jones

Posted on 12/13/2021 6:54:40 PM PST by marshmallow

An image portraying the Virgin Mary and Jesus as Black in a way that some critics said politicized religion to comment on the murder of George Floyd was defended and replaced by Catholic University of America officials after it was stolen in late November. The university’s student government, however, has now passed a resolution calling for the image to be replaced with other art that better fulfills the needs for theological art and representation of the Black community.

“There are other paintings and icons that do a much better job at making a genuine, good faith effort to reflect the universality of the Catholic Church that also do not divide and confuse the university and larger Catholic community,” said the resolution, passed by the student government senate, in a 15-9 vote on Dec. 6.

The resolution’s title said it aimed to “unify the community by replacing controversial icons.” The text asks for the university to remove the paintings from university buildings and to work to replace them with “other forms of art that represent diversity and bring forth representation of the African American community in a non-political and uncontroversial way.”

CNA contacted the university for comment but did not receive a response by deadline.

The painting, by the St. Louis-based artist Kelly Latimore, is titled “Mama.” It was installed in February outside the chapel at the university’s Columbus School of Law. In a style reminiscent of Eastern Christian iconography, the artwork portrays a Black Virgin Mary and Jesus in a Pieta-like scene. Mary’s gaze looks outward towards the viewer.

The image was stolen the night of Nov. 23. University officials replaced it with an identical, smaller copy from the campus ministry office.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: antipope; blackkk; blacklivesmatter; blackthugsmatter; blasphemy; blm; catholic; cua; education; fentynalfloyd; fleorgegoyd; georgefloyd; kellylatimore; popefranniepoo; romancatholicism

1 posted on 12/13/2021 6:54:40 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

2 posted on 12/13/2021 6:58:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: marshmallow

disgusting


3 posted on 12/13/2021 6:58:05 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: marshmallow

This is what happens when you stupidly let idiot children make decisions for you.


4 posted on 12/13/2021 6:58:55 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: marshmallow

How about Simeon the Ethiopian? Or will that not generate enough anger to claim people are racist since it is rooted in real history.


5 posted on 12/13/2021 7:02:32 PM PST by LukeL
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To: BenLurkin

I Can’t Breathe in Latin?
I think it would be put as:

“Non Possum Respirare!”
Said with a Sicilian accent.


6 posted on 12/13/2021 7:03:49 PM PST by lee martell
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To: hinckley buzzard

HUH?


7 posted on 12/13/2021 7:41:36 PM PST by Romulus
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To: marshmallow

I’m sure the fake pope is a big fan of George the drug addict 🤪


8 posted on 12/13/2021 7:50:47 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: hinckley buzzard

It sounds like some actual Catholic kids got elected to the school government. Maybe the rational kids are learning from school board elections nationwide.


9 posted on 12/13/2021 7:51:29 PM PST by Betty Jane
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To: marshmallow

If Jesus was George Floyd and they hung him on the cross, would he have shouted at about the ninth hour, “I dindu nuffin!”?


10 posted on 12/13/2021 8:03:27 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: marshmallow

If Floyd is Christ, I don’t recall Jesus doing porn and being a drug addict. Or a thief. Or even fighting the police when He was arrested in the Garden of Gesthemene.


11 posted on 12/13/2021 8:08:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

LOL. Good one bro. 👍😀


12 posted on 12/13/2021 8:08:32 PM PST by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: All

In these days of idiotic to Satanic ‘cancel culture’ I doubt that there is such a thing as ‘uncontroversial art’.

Someone, somewhere is going to make it their business to be offended by anything displayed anywhere.


13 posted on 12/13/2021 8:15:30 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Secret Agent Man

I got an idea for an art project that involves a full bladder and a little statuette of St. Floyd.


14 posted on 12/13/2021 8:18:44 PM PST by bigbob
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To: marshmallow

Kudos to the Catholic University Student Government.


15 posted on 12/13/2021 8:21:06 PM PST by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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To: bigbob

:)


16 posted on 12/13/2021 8:21:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: marshmallow

I don’t believe there are race or sex quotas on who enters heaven.


17 posted on 12/13/2021 8:27:22 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks for the pictorial truth bomb.


18 posted on 12/13/2021 10:56:05 PM PST by MDLION (J"Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: marshmallow

Still no word on Catholic U commissioning a Pieta of Mary cradling Wilhelm Hospel, the 81-year-old white man ran over by a black man at the Waukesha Christmas parade?


19 posted on 12/13/2021 11:01:44 PM PST by MDLION (J"Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Or threatening to shoot a pregnant woman in her womb.


20 posted on 12/14/2021 7:28:36 AM PST by sitetest (Professional patient. No longer mostly dead. Again. It's getting to be a habit.)
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