MODERN ART
CRITICISM BY POPE " PROFANES SACRED THINGS " (Received October 28, 10.5 p.m.) ROME. Oct. '27 The Po[>e, in opening tlie new Vatican picture gallery, severely criticised the "socalled modern art," which, he said, merely caricatured and profaned sacred things. Some people defended modern art hy saying il: represented a search for something new, whereas, it only revealed incapacity and unwillingness to learn. " Wo wish such art to he excluded from our churches," said the Pope. " Nothing should distract the attention of the faithful in the name of mistaken art."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 9
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