Cardinal in 'Nazi art term' row
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A German archbishop sparks anger by calling modern art "degenerate" - a term used by Nazis in persecuting artists.
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LONDON -- Jewish groups and lawmakers criticized Prince Harry on Thursday for wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party, with one group urging him to visit the Auschwitz death camp, despite an apology from the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II.
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A spectacular exhibition of contemporary art, which opened in Berlin on Tuesday amid Jewish protests, drew accusations that its billionaire owner was exploiting art to redeem his family's Nazi past.
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"They will come to you and say: Give me your coat. Take off your pants. Give me your shoes."  More than 700 people in Poland, including a former prime minister and foreign minister, signed an open letter condemning statements about Jews by a right-wing Roman Catholic priest who runs a controversial radio station.A magazine had reported that Rev. Tadeusz Rydzyk, during a lecture earlier this year at a journalism school, described Jews as greedy and criticized President Lech Kaczynski for donating land in Warsaw for a Jewish museum.Hundreds of people _ including former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and former Auschwitz inmate and Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski _ signed the letter, saying Rydzyk's comments 'revealed his contempt' for Jews and fellow Christians. Read more
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Vatican relations with the Islamic world must be restarted from square one because Muslims insist on misinterpreting Pope Benedict's recent comments on Islam, Germany's top Catholic cardinal said in an article on Wednesday.
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Two pieces of Christian art that predate the Holocaust raise questions about anti-Semitism.
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's strict line on Catholic dogma has earned the chief Vatican guardian of orthodoxy a host of nicknames: the Enforcer, the Fundamentalist and Panzerkardinal, a German neologism that ...
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A German court today sentenced infamous Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to five years in prison for holding a particularly unpopular opinion.  The irony of jailing people for their beliefs in the name of fighting the neo-Nazi movement seems to be lost on most of the western world, including Canada, which jailed Zundel for two years in a maximum security facility before deporting him to Germany.  Many organizations, such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center, applaud the decision, but sadly lacking is a sense of outrage over the blow that this decision strikes against free speech.  Whatever happened to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?
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Controversy surrounding a current art exhibition (earlier reports here) being held in Berlin has deepened after an unusual stunt pulled on Wednesday by a German gymnast, said to be protesting over the dark legacy which is attached to the artworks on
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A German cardinal has criticized nostalgia for communism in the former East Germany.
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A woman has attacked two works of art at a controversial Berlin exhibition given by the heir of a convicted Nazi industrialist, before shouting that she forgave their owner, police say.
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The Israeli ambassador in Berlin on Tuesday criticised comments by a German bishop in which he compared the situation of the Palestinians to Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.
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One week after Britain's Prince Harry appeared at a costume party wearing a Nazi swastika, the European Parliament is considering a Nazi symbol ban.
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Artworks depicting Osama bin Laden in a  Christ-like pose and a statue of the Virgin Mary covered in a  burqa have caused a stir in Australia after they were showcased  in a prestigious religious art competition.
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A decree by Pope Benedict allowing priests to say the old Latin Mass more frequently has drawn criticism within Catholic and Jewish ranks, with one Italian bishop saying he was "in mourning".
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An artist who depicted Adolf Hitler as a  pop art-style cartoon figure at an exhibition near the former  Dachau concentration camp said Thursday he would close the  2-week-old show due to public outrage.
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The Vatican has come calling for one of the paintings at the Columbia Museum of Art.