Blasphemy on Cardinal Schönborn's watch

Erotic Jesus sparks art debate in Austria

 

They knew it would be risky to exhibit a homoerotic version of Christ’s Last Supper, but curators at museum of Vienna’s Roman Catholic Cathedral weren’t ready for a barrage of angry messages and calls to be shut down. The source of the dispute, which Austrian media has dubbed Vienna’s version of the Mohammad caricature row, is a retrospective honoring Austria’s cherished artist Alfred Hrdlicka, who turned 80 earlier this year. But not everyone has been wishing Hrdlicka a Happy Birthday. And the Cathedral Museum’s director and Cardinal Christoph Schönborn,, the archbishop of Vienna, have both come under fire from some museum visitors and Catholic websites. The Church hastily removed the main picture, “a homosexual orgy” of the Apostles as Hrdlicka describes it.

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