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Old October 3rd, 2019 #11
Stewart Meadows
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Originally Posted by Tom Jones View Post
This was a Catholic church logo from the 1970's, showing how their priests "took care of" God's children -until someone noticed that it looked more like an altar boy "taking care of" one of the priests.

That picture reminds me of the following controversy:

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Blackfriars Priory School to redesign 'suggestive' statue of saint and child after online ridicule


By Daniel Keane
Posted 22 Nov 2017, 6:47am

An Adelaide Catholic school has covered up a statue of a religious icon after it created a stir on social media because of its apparently unintended suggestiveness.

The statue was recently installed at Blackfriars Priory School in Prospect and depicts a 16th century saint handing a bread loaf to a child's outstretched hand.

But, as numerous online commentators have pointed out, the effect is somewhat different.

In the past 12 years, at least two former Blackfriars teachers — Stephen John Stockdale-Hall and Ronald William Hopkins — have been jailed for sexually abusing students at the school.
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Mr Cobiac said the embarrassing artwork was created in Vietnam by a sculptor who had done other work for the school.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-...s-stir/9180724