WCR Letters to the Editor

We must be outraged over N.Y. art exhibit

If this act wasn't enough to outrage Catholics around the world, the artist also spread animal feces over the Virgin. The exhibit in New York is called Sensation but I think a more fitting name is Sacrilegious.

The Museum should be boycotted by every single Catholic who believes that the Virgin is the Mother of God. Catholics must support the Mayor of New York's attempt to remove public funding from the museum until it removes the disgusting, disgraceful portrayal of Jesus' Mother.

Catholics must send a clear message to the director of the Brooklyn Museum of Art that we will not tolerate the picture in the exhibit and inform him that we will boycott the museum unless the picture is removed or until a full written apology is offered to New York's Archbishop, John O'Connor.

It is unlikely that the museum will remove the photo for reasons of publicity and profitability. Therefore, I encourage Catholics to write a letter and send the museum a respectful, dignified picture of the Virgin Mary.

Imagine the outrage of various world religions if the Brooklyn Museum of Art used a picture of the Dalai Lama, Buddha, or Mohammed in the same fashion. There would be an instant backlash, boycott, and severe condemnation against the museum. Catholics should be no less diligent in protecting our sacred religious symbols, especially the Mother of God.

Jason Gariepy
Beaumont

Masses are for the dead

She said, "The celebration of a Christian funeral liturgy is for the living."

In my missal it says, "In the Memento for the Dead, the Church prays every day and in every Mass for the departed children. However, she has also set apart a Mass which is applied especially to the dead."

If your Masses are no longer for the dead, I'm grateful that I still go to a Church which still prays for the faithful departed.

Marie Kelly
Edmonton

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