VATICAN PICTURE GALLERY
OPENED BY THE POPE,
‘‘MODERN ART” CONDEMNED
(Received 9 a.m.) ROME, October 27.
The Pope, in opening the new Vatican Picture Gallery, severely criticised the ‘ ‘ so-called modern art,” which, lie said, merely caricatured and profaned sacred things. Some people defended modern art by saying it represented a search for something new, whereas it only revealed incapacity and unwillingness to learn, “We wish such art to be excluded, from our churches,” said the Pope, “Nothing should distract the attention of the faithful in the name of a mistaken art.”
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Northern Advocate, 29 October 1932, Page 9
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