Vatican Speaks Out on Blasphemous Art.

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August 28th, 2008

A sculpture of a frog crucified in the manner of Christ holding a beer mug and an egg was criticized by both the German regional governor in whose province the sculpture is to be displayed. The Holy See wrote in support of Franz Pahl, the governor, who has gone on a hunger strike to protest its placement in a Bolzano museum. The sculpture is the work of late German artist Martin Kippenberger who died in 1997.

via MSNBC.com [Full Story] and a rather upsetting UPDATE via The Associated Press [Full Story]

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