The row over the bizarre art in Linz Cathedral has deepened.
Artist Theresa Limberger launched a stunning attack on the Catholic faith and the parishioners who pay for the cathedral by saying:
'The intolerance, backwardness and lack of enlightenment in the Catholic Church is frightening'
Meanwhile, her colleague Esther Strauss strongly replied to her critics in a Facebook post, saying that they wanted to ‘control women’ and implied that the art was against the ‘patriarchy’.
Meanwhile, Martina Resch, the theologian behind the bizarre project has admitted deliberately ignoring the comments from the parishioners who pay for the church:
There is a guest book to give people the opportunity to write down their thoughts about it. There were definitely a lot of verbally aggressive and disturbing notes
The priest has also admitted that the ‘art’ was intended to ‘provoke debate’.
There is place for modern, provocative art in churches.
But only in cases where it lifts people to God, not in cases where it makes people angry at its ugliness by design.
