Branching off to Brazil from another recent topic here (https://www.cathinfo.com/crisis-in-the-church/ireland's-rebellion-against-god/msg912439/#msg912439)



Giovanni Berto & any other Brazilians, are there no protests? Business as usual? People too much into just getting by day to day to notice or care? From the website of the organization that manages the monument, it's unclear who exactly is in charge of it; the website does include the requisite ecuмenical interreligious gibberish. Yet somebody had to decide and sign off that this publicity stunt was OK.

The update is that the remaining Rio concert dates have been canceled due to extremely high temperatures, causing a 23 y.o. attendee to die from heat stroke on the tour's first night. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-fan-details-scorching-sauna-like-conditions-brazil-show-23-year-old-dead

I have not heard anything about protests.

As far as I know, the Rio de Janeiro diocese is in charge of the statue.

If I am not mistaken, there have been many similar things done with Our Lord's famous statue.

Rio de Janeiro is the least Catholic state in Brazil, and the capital city, Rio de Janeiro, is very cosmopolitan. I don't really expect any protests to happen.

There you have it:

https://g1.globo.com/sc/santa-catarina/noticia/2023/11/17/entenda-homenagem-taylor-swift-cristo-redentor.ghtml

A ação foi feita em conjunto com o Santuário Cristo Redentor, que promoveu uma ação solidária referente ao Dia Mundial dos Pobres, instituído pelo Papa Francisco e que tem como data o dia 19 de novembro.

Padre Omar, reitor do santuário e alvo de súplicas dos fãs de Taylor, se envolveu pessoalmente no projeto.

My own translation:

The action was made in collaboration with Christ The Redeemer Sanctuary, which promoted a charitable act in reference to the World Day of The Poor, instituted by Pope Francis on the date of November 19th.

Father Omar, the sanctuary's Rector, was begged by Taylor Swift fans, and got personally involved in the project.

The action was made in collaboration with Christ The Redeemer Sanctuary, which promoted a charitable act in reference to the World Day of The Poor, instituted by Pope Francis on the date of November 19th.

Father Omar, the sanctuary's Rector, was begged by Taylor Swift fans, and got personally involved in the project.

The real issue I suppose is whether or not it's sacrilegious for advertisements, messages, or other things to be posted on or overlayed on top of religious statues, buildings, items, etc in ways that don't damage or otherwise alter the statue/building/etc.

To be clear, it seems unavoidable to conclude that it does indeed profane the sacred, but one could then ask: does the charity behind the "allowance" of such excuse it or make it ok? Or is that reasoning too close to ends-justifying-means reasoning?

Brazil does this all the time. They treat the statue the same way we do the Empire State Building.