Modern "Art": after a century of so much nonsense in the name of art, we are still bombarded daily by bad "creations" whose only justification is the need to "shock" the public.
Just last week, Francis himself shocked the Catholic world once again by honoring and greeting one of the causes célèbres of American art: Andres Serrano, the New York "artist" photographer whose 1987 work "Piss Christ" (a photograph of a Crucifix submerged in his own urine) led to an actual cut of federal funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Francis is the "Piss Christ pope": in order to shock and cause mayhem for this and future generations, irrespective of merit and good sense, he will humiliate the Lord repeatedly. His "art" is to shock.
And he did shock the Catholic world once again today by naming his confidante, ghost-writer, and Argentine theologian Victor Manuel "Tucho" Fernández new prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith. We published a samizdat version of fabulous Tucho's most famous work here in Rorate in 2017: Heal Me With Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing.
In his letter welcoming Tucho as Prefect, Francis emphasizes the need not to let, "secondary issues end up overshadowing the central ones." So, no more concerns with life (abortion, euthanasia) or gender theory, or (certainly not) homosexuality or blessings of same-sex "unions"! No, no, everything now will be under the sign of mercy -- mercy as understood by Francis and Tucho's "art of kissing"...
What about Our Lord Jesus Christ? The Church doesn't need Him: He can stay where the now-fêted Andres Serrano left Him.
