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Roberto Francisco Daniel the 47 year old Brazilian Catholic priest has been accused of "heresy" and "schism" by the church hierarchy and excommunicated according to an article title ‘Excommunicated Brazilian priest slams ‘out of touch’ Roman Catholic Church’ published in The Free Thinker magazine by Barry Duke. Duke states “…with unseemly haste, the Roman Catholic Church this week rid itself of a Brazilian priest for, among other things, supporting gay rights. …the rogue Brazilian, Father Roberto Francisco Daniel – known to local parishioners as Padre Beto – was excommunicated before he had the chance to announce his planned resignation from an organisation he described as: A lukewarm and disengaged church that is out of touch with today’s society. In a statement released … the priest’s diocese said Daniel had: In the name of ‘freedom of expression’ betrayed the promise of fealty to the Church. It alleged that Daniel had: Injured the Church with grave statements counter to the dogma of Catholic faith and morality. His actions amounted to ‘heresy and schism’, the statement said. The rare punishment follows what Daniel’s bishop and the priest himself said were repeated rebukes he received over  the videos he had made and other public activities, such as a radio broadcast and local newspaper column, in which he challenged Church doctrine. …On Facebook and Twitter, Daniel posted a brief statement about the excommunication: I feel honored to belong to the long list of people who have been murdered and burned alive for thinking and searching for knowledge. Daniel’s excommunication, which prompted headlines across Brazil and protests in social media, illustrates the rising influence of more moderate social views in Brazil, Latin America’s biggest country, and much of the rest of the region. Progressive stances on sexuality, birth control, scientific research and other delicate topics for the Church are increasingly common in Latin America, home to 42 percent of the world’s Catholics, more than any other region worldwide.”  Inspired by Barry Duke, The Freethinker ow.ly/laBPN Image source Freethinker ow.ly/laBP5 Church out of touch with today’s society (June 12 2013)

 

Roberto Francisco Daniel the 47 year old Brazilian Catholic priest has been accused of “heresy” and “schism” by the church hierarchy and excommunicated according to an article title ‘Excommunicated Brazilian priest slams ‘out of touch’ Roman Catholic Church’ published in The Free Thinker magazine by Barry Duke. Duke states “…with unseemly haste, the Roman Catholic Church this week rid itself of a Brazilian priest for, among other things, supporting gay rights. …the rogue Brazilian, Father Roberto Francisco Daniel – known to local parishioners as Padre Beto – was excommunicated before he had the chance to announce his planned resignation from an organisation he described as: A lukewarm and disengaged church that is out of touch with today’s society. In a statement released … the priest’s diocese said Daniel had: In the name of ‘freedom of expression’ betrayed the promise of fealty to the Church. It alleged that Daniel had: Injured the Church with grave statements counter to the dogma of Catholic faith and morality. His actions amounted to ‘heresy and schism’, the statement said. The rare punishment follows what Daniel’s bishop and the priest himself said were repeated rebukes he received over  the videos he had made and other public activities, such as a radio broadcast and local newspaper column, in which he challenged Church doctrine. …On Facebook and Twitter, Daniel posted a brief statement about the excommunication: I feel honored to belong to the long list of people who have been murdered and burned alive for thinking and searching for knowledge. Daniel’s excommunication, which prompted headlines across Brazil and protests in social media, illustrates the rising influence of more moderate social views in Brazil, Latin America’s biggest country, and much of the rest of the region. Progressive stances on sexuality, birth control, scientific research and other delicate topics for the Church are increasingly common in Latin America, home to 42 percent of the world’s Catholics, more than any other region worldwide.”

 

Inspired by Barry Duke, The Freethinker ow.ly/laBPN Image source Freethinker ow.ly/laBP5

Angelo Bagnasco the 67 year old Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and president of the Italian Bishops' Conference Selling oneself that falsely promotes self success (January 28 2011)

Angelo Bagnasco the 67 year old Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference a known conservative has criticized Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who stands accused of paying for sex with prostitutes including an under-age dancer. Berlusconi denies having done anything wrong, while refusing to attend before prosecutors to answer questions related to his embroilment in the sex scandal. Bagnasco while not naming Berlusconi directly, stated that whoever accepts a public position must understand the sobriety, personal discipline, sense of measure and honour that come with it. Less formally he deplored the cunningness, social climbing, showing off and selling oneself that falsely promotes self success.

 

Inspired by Nick Squires ow.ly/3JJri image source Wikipedia ow.ly/3JJ91

Pope Benedict XVI the 83-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church concluded his visit to the predominantly Anglican Britain, only the second such visit by a catholic pope since 1534 when King Henry VIII renounced the Roman Catholic Church for its failure to annul his marriage.  The previous visit being nearly three decades earlier by John Paul II.  While visiting, the pope met with victims of clerical abuse, issuing an apology to those abused and expressing his sorrow for the “unspeakable crimes.”  He also held an open-air prayer meeting for an estimated 80,000 followers in Hyde Park while an estimated 10,000 demonstrators marched through London to Downing Street condemning the catholic church over its attitude to homosexuality, women’s rights, condom use and child abuse.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

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