Ugly As Sin

[TotusTuusMaria]

ew. its so ugly.

[Excelsior1027]

That's just scary lookin'.

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='dominicansoul' post='1881324' date='Jun 2 2009, 04:28 PM']and what's the deal with mentioning the commies she was killed with???[/quote]
Probably to connect our martyrs with the "martyrs" of the artist's religion.

[picchick]

[quote name='Brother Adam' post='1881373' date='Jun 2 2009, 05:15 PM']Bad art in churches and Eucharistic abuse are connected. I'm not suggesting any more outrage over this heinous image than any other ugly church. It is one more reminder of a need for a strong call for authentic renewal in the Church.[/quote]
Eucharistic Abuse, although connected, is higher. I am not saying that it belongs there or that it is beautiful. I am saying that I will save my outrage for atrocities against God greater than a piece of metal shapen in an ugly form.

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='picchick' post='1881427' date='Jun 2 2009, 04:12 PM']Eucharistic Abuse, although connected, is higher. I am not saying that it belongs there or that it is beautiful. I am saying that I will save my outrage for atrocities against God greater than a piece of metal shapen in an ugly form.[/quote]
Icons -- as an extension of the incarnation -- are central to Christian worship, so I cannot reserve my outrage, because this piece of "art" is an offense against God, Who causes human beings to be saintliness.

[saintwannabe 777]

I hate how the site is taking shots at JPII for having made the rector blessed.

Edited June 2, 2009 by saintwannabe 777

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='saintwannabe 777' post='1881437' date='Jun 2 2009, 04:26 PM']I hate how the site is taking shots at JPII for having made the rector blessed.[/quote]
I do not think the website, which is run by Fr. Zuhlsdorf, is taking a swipe at John Paul II, nor is the article that is posted on the site doing that; instead, the article is simply stating that John Paul II is the one who beatified Sr. Restituta Kafka.

[Apotheoun]

Postscript: The rector has not been made a blessed.

[manockster]

:edit:

Edited June 2, 2009 by manockster

[Moosey]

There's a book called "Ugly as Sin." It's about horribly constructed churches.

[url="http://www.amazon.com/Ugly-As-Sin-Churches-Forthright/dp/1928832369"]http://www.amazon.com/Ugly-As-Sin-Churches...t/dp/1928832369[/url]


That bust is absolutely repulsive.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='saintwannabe 777' post='1881437' date='Jun 2 2009, 06:26 PM']I hate how the site is taking shots at JPII for having made the rector blessed.[/quote]

Fr. Z always speaks about John Paul II kindly. That Pope did ordain him, after all.

[rose wrought of iron]

That is hideous. I really think my two year old sister can make something better and more reverent from play-dough.

[CatherineM]

Re the discussion of Eucharistic Abuse and Architectural Abuse, I was thinking about a show on kids I saw. This child development specialist was showing his kids' rooms, and they were filled with expensive breakables, and his kids were grade school age. When asked if he worried about them breaking things, he said no. He had raised them around nice things, and they had learned to be respectful of them. They didn't have plastic plates and sippy cups, they had always eaten off fine china and drank out of lead crystal.

My point is that when I enter a modern church that you can barely tell is Catholic, I notice that I am louder, more likely to just flop down and get comfortable. When I have entered ornate, ancient Colonial era churches in Mexico, or St. Pat's in NYC, I notice that I immediately become more quiet and reverent. I know that shouldn't make a difference, but it does. When we get "comfortable" is when I have seen Eucharistic abuse creep in. When our surroundings are majestic, I just think we are automatically more respectful.

[Marie-Therese]

Were I a parishoner of that diocese, I would tell the Bishop, with all respect, that I would not give one thin dime in temporal support to that diocese until that abomination had been removed from the House of God. There is art which is subjectively appreciated, and then there are blatant swipes at God. Would citizens of the United States sit and allow a memorial on Ground Zero to include the names of the hijackers? NO!!!

The more complacent we are, the more souls are dragged to Hell. That is just the way it is. Only Satan could be behind something so perverse as to allow an atheist Communist sympathizer to commemorate a martyr of the Church. The only way this could be more offensive is if he carved a swastika on it.

[KnightofChrist]

It looks pornographic, as well as satanic.