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Charleton Heston is Dead, Is It Too Early to Ban Him?

April 7th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

  • [Reuters] Vienna’s Roman Catholic Cathedral museum is receiving “a barrage of angry messages and calls to be shut down” in “Vienna’s version of the Mohammad caricature row” over Alfred Hrdlicka’s “a homoerotic version of Christ’s Last Supper.” The piece is now gone, and Cardinal Schoenborn’s spokesperson says, “This has nothing to do with censorship, rather corresponds with the understood ‘reverence for the sacred.’” Hrdlicka is the creator Statue of a Kneeling Jew.

  • Charleton Heston, the “Voice of God” as the DMN Religion Blog calls him, has died at 84, but should we boycott his films, wonders the Guardian? Image: Guardian.
  • [Telegraph, UK] The play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot “makes most contemporary plays seem safe, timid and dull, and reminds us of what is missing not only from 99 per cent of our drama but from 99 per cent of our lives - a sense of spirituality and of mystery.”
  • [Globe and Mail] A Dutch court won’t be banning Geert Wilders’ “anti-Muslim” film “Fitna.” The court cites free speech as the explanation for the decision.

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      Tom Heneghan Says

      Cardinal Schönborn has given a statement explaining his stand on the Hrdlicka Last Supper painting. The text is on the Reuters religion blog FaithWorld at http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/09/vienna-cardinal-explains-stand-on-erotic-last-supper-painting/

      Apr 9th, 2008 at 11:52 am   

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