CBCP NEWS - Laiko wants organizers of CCP exhibit sued

The CCP and Mideo Cruz have blasphemed and sacrileged the Lord Jesus and His beloved Mother the Virgin Mary - the King and Queen-Mother of our Nation. What Mideo Cruz has done is not only improper but evil... it is Satanic at best. The entire CCP officers must resign. Their concept of Art is not based on what is True, Good and Beautiful but based on distortions, lies and deception. Shame on the Aquino Government for this insult hurled against the Lord and the Blessed Mother.

MANILA, August 9, 2011―With reports about the
closure of the so-called offensive and obscene art exhibit at the
Cultural Center of the Philippines, the executive secretary of
Sangguniang Layko ng Pilipinas Edgardo J. Tria Tirona said he
appreciates the decision of the authorities at the government-owned
institution.

However, he said there is a need to continue the prosecution of
people involved in the exhibit because “a lot of damage” has been done
to the Catholic and other Christian churches.

“Prosecuting those behind the exhibit will teach them a lesson so
that no such ugly episode will be repeated,” he told CBCPNews Tuesday
morning.

Tria Tirona said the approach to create a come-on to exhibits has
already been used time and again, adding that “kumita na ang
pa-kontrobersyal na approach sa exhibits.”

He said it is imperative that the organizers be made to pay for their offensive behavior. 

Meanwhile, the University of Sto Tomas has issued a statement
condemning the art exhibit of Mideo Cruz, an alumnus of the pontifical
university.

“We (Theology professors) strongly denounce the work [of Mideo Cruz]
as spiritually outrageous and demeaning, blasphemous and sacrilegious,
offensive, educationally confusing, misleading, and even scandalous,
particularly to the Catholic faithful and the Thomasian community,” said
Allan Basas, secretary of the Institute of Religion, in a news report
from the Varsitarian.

UST Rector Rolando de la Rosa also said Mideo's interpretation of freedom of artistic expression has gone overboard.

Whether inside or outside the University, Thomasians should “behave
according to the Catholic values imbibed [as] students, and one of these
values is the sense of decency,” de la Rosa said. (Melo Acuna)