‘Soul’ Launches an Absurd Attack on Catholic Art
”The Rape of the Soul” is a fear-mongering, small-minded, and pathetically smutty polemic about art and the Roman Catholic Church. Presented as a documentary by filmmaker and self-described devout Catholic Michael A. Calace, the film seeks to discredit ”predatory artists” from da Vinci and Botticelli to anonymous designers of contemporary greeting cards.”Â
“Calace’s mission: To reveal all the satanic faces, genitalia, spellings of the word sex, and other evidence of evil lurking in painted clouds, shadows, and designs in art related to the Catholic Church. Freud had an eye out for phallic symbols, but he would have had nothing on Calace. He could find an orgy in a bowl of oatmeal.” (more)
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[...] That far-right Catholic web site that theocrat Richard Neuhaus leaned on for his claim that 50 or 60 percent of children raised by male homosexuals turn out to be homosexual or bisexual, and suffer many times the norm in incidence of child sexual abuse, has taken its own a peek at Michael Calace’s “Rape Of The Soul. Unaccountably, they seem somewhat appalled… [...]
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Unaccountably, they seem somewhat appalled
I guess Bruce can’t read either. Shelray simply posted some of the text from a Boston.com article.
Comment by David — March 31, 2006 @ 9:28 pm