Bishop defends Condom Pig's Heart hanging before altar

The bishop continues to defend his "condom pig's heart" in the church, claiming that there is said to be "a lot of positive feedback."

In a letter available to kath.net, Diocesan Bishop, Hermann Glettler defends the controversial Lenten hanging in the Innsbruck Hospital Church, which shows a pig's heart. (See photograph) He responds to inquiries about the picture with a standardized e-mail, in which he points out that it is “of course” not a Sacred Heart picture. One should read the text that he sends in the appendix and that is available in the Hospital Church.

He justifies the picture as an "attempt to enter into a dialogue with contemporary art". This is happening in three of the approximately 300 parish and pilgrimage churches in the diocese. Glettler asks if that's too much and then adds: "Do you own the Hospital Church?"

Glettler then claims that there is supposedly "a lot of positive feedback" from people who just want to look, but he doesn't offer any proof of this.

In the beginning he hands out a dig at kath.net. He suspects that the information about the picture came from kath.net and then claims "that this platform reports in a manipulative and inflammatory manner." which the Bishop was obviously uncomfortable with, refusing answers to quite normal questions.

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