A Relevant Article from the Vatican's Newspaper:
Marian images need artistic rehabilitation, says Vatican newspaper
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The loving, tender images of Mary breast-feeding the baby Jesus need an artistic and spiritual rehabilitation, said the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
A vast iconography of traditional Christian art has been "censored by the modern age" because images depicting Our Lady's naked breast for her child were deemed too "unseemly," the paper said June 19.
Artists began depicting a fully clothed nursing Mary in sacred art in an attempt to make her seem less "carnal," but the depictions unfortunately also diminished her human, loving and tender side "that touches the hearts and faith of the devout," the newspaper said.
see the rest of the story (from June 2008) at: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0803257.htm
I can say as a Catholic that I am 100% in favor of breasts, feeding, and breastfeeding. I'm sure a lot of those bishops and cardinals and monsigniors were in favor of it too when they were hungry little babies. There's nothing obscene about dinner. I'm just saying.
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