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Vatican Objects to Image of Frog on Crucifix

Calls it 'desecration,' but Italian museum won't take it down

By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 28, 2008 6:45 PM CDT

(Newser) – Despite objections from the pope, a sculpture of a crucified frog will continue to hang in an Italian museum, board officials said today. The Vatican slammed the work, called Feet First, as a blasphemous attack on Christianity. But museum officials cited artistic freedom and said... Read full story »

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