Even though the scandalous MetGala, with its parade of stars dressed in disgraceful Catholic “fashions” is over, an equally appalling museum exhibit full of similar atrocities will remain open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until October – which is why a public Rosary rally of reparation is planned for this weekend in honor of the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
America Needs Fatima is orchestrating this rally on June 9, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at 12 noon outside of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The museum will be hosting an exhibition entitled, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” until October 8 in which they will be displaying many articles on loan from the Vatican.
As Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture told the National Catholic Register last month, the Vatican loaned 40 items to the museum which serve as a “cornerstone” of the display, including “papal robes and accessories from the Sistine Chapel sacristy, many of which have never been seen outside the Vatican.”
However, interspersed throughout the display are exhibits that many Catholics find highly offensive, such as mannequins dressed in transparent and revealing renditions of sacred robes. One dress, which is clearly a mockery of the red robes worn by Cardinals, is slit to the navel and reveals almost the full chest of the mannequin. Another dress with a very short black skirt features on icon of Our Lady on the front and back. Also displayed is a transparent top depicting an image of a naked Adam and Eve on the front. These kinds of indecent displays are in addition to others such as the exhibit that features a bondage mask with rosaries draped over it.
“This scandalous exhibit seems to do everything possible to mix the sacred with the obscene. Thus, the seal that separates the sacred is brutally violated,” writes John Horvat II, author of Return to Order and a board member of The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property.
“It is this mix that turns everything upside down. Moreover, this is not just a blending of sacred things with normal worldly things. Instead, it mixes the sacred with the sensual, promiscuous and immoral. The intent is to maximize the contrast between the two while uniting the two in an unholy alliance.”
Allowing this exhibit to go on will open the way for new blasphemies in the future, which is why Catholics must make their voices heard now.
“This exhibit represents a callous new step in the spread of blasphemy in America which will contribute toward the breaking of that precarious yet sacred bond that still links America to God,” Horvat writes. “When nothing is sacred, all is permitted. That is why the ‘Heavenly Bodies’ exhibit must be denounced and opposed.”
In the meantime, we must make reparation for this offensive display. If you can’t join the rally on Saturday, pray the Rosary in reparation for these offenses.
And be sure to sign the petition asking the Met to shut down this exhibit at once.
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