‘Bp.’ Glettler suddenly discovers evil of blasphemy…
Austrian ‘Bishop’ Says Showing Trump on a Cross Is ‘Perverse’ – But Admires Crucified Frog!
‘Bishop’ Hermann Glettler in 2024 (image: IMAGO/Bildagentur Muehlanger via Alamy)
Few Novus Ordo bishops have a more blatant record of appreciating, promoting, and defending blasphemy than ‘Bishop’ Hermann Glettler of Innsbruck, Austria. Indeed, until this week, one might have said that there has apparently never been a depiction of blasphemy he didn’t like.
But one would have been wrong.
It turns out that the Austrian blasphemer has now found a piece of blasphemy he does consider offensive and unacceptable: It is the ‘artwork’ Saint or Sinner? by 48-year-old California-born actor-turned-‘artist’ Mason Storm, and it is blasphemous indeed.
It shows a dead or dying U.S. President Donald Trump in an orange jumpsuit tied to a cross resembling a stretcher, with his arms extended. The cross is white and padded and hangs from a wall. The visual resemblance to the Crucifixion of Christ is as obvious as it is intentional.
Here is a screenshot taken from Storm’s Instagram account, showing the blasphemous work at an exhibition in Vienna this past May:
This work of ‘art’ is to be installed on Sep. 6 at the central station of the city of Basel, Switzerland.
There is no question that the creation is blasphemous. That it should be the scandalous ‘Bishop’ Glettler, of all people, who is offended by it, is nothing short of the pot calling the kettle black, however.
“I find the work of British artist Mason Storm, which has apparently already been exhibited in Vienna, simply perverse. There is nothing in it that makes any sense whatsoever”, the Modernist pseudo-bishop told the Swiss kath.ch in an interview published Aug. 6, and continued: “Or is one aiming to increase the egomaniacal dealmaker from Washington’s thirst for power with the central Christian symbol? Trump strapped to the cross as the savior, or as a martyr dressed in orange prison garb shortly before execution? I mean, seriously?!” (our translation).
Here are further links on this topic:
- Trump on the Cross: “A Colossal Miscast”
- Bishop who thinks you can make art out of crucified frogs thinks crucified Trump is “simply perverse”
It is not rash to suspect that Glettler’s problem with the image is not the inherent blasphemy of showing a mock crucifixion or of making an obviously unworthy and unfit person appear as a Christ-like savior or redeemer. No, it seems pretty clear that his real problem is that the creature on the stretcher-cross is Donald Trump specifically. Indeed, we will go so far as to say that had Storm depicted a crucified migrant, an aberrosexual transvestite, or Planet Earth on the cross instead, Glettler would have expressed enthusiasm over it and would perhaps even have wanted to display the piece in his own cathedral.
That this is no exaggeration can be seen if we review a few disturbing facts about the false Catholic bishop of Innsbruck.
In the summer of 2018, Hermann Glettler made the news for putting a banner on the facade of his diocesan cathedral, which read: “As long as God has a beard, I will be a feminist.” By this he meant that for as long as God the Father is depicted in art as having a long beard, Glettler would express himself in solidarity with feminists.
That was nothing, however, compared to the most frightful blasphemy he perpetrated the following year, during Lent, when he had a ‘Jesus Clock’ installed in one of his Innsbruck churches. This infuriating abomination consisted of the Sacred Body of Our Blessed Lord (the Corpus from a Crucifix) being used for indicating time by separating the two Arms from the rest of His Sacred Body and using them like hands on a clock. The constant visible movement showed a continually distorted and grotesque Christ — truly a heart-wrenching sight for anyone who loves the Son of God:
Then there was the 2022 ‘art’ installation of a supposed Lenten shroud in the Church of St. John Nepomucene in Innsbruck. We are talking about a gigantic cloth on which was printed the photo of a partially-visible naked man lying on a mattress. Entitled Tired?, it hung prominently right above the high altar, which means that everyone’s eyes were immediately drawn to it upon entering the church. Glettler himself presided over its installation:
In 2003, Glettler had permitted — if not outright commissioned — the defacing of a side chapel in the church over which he was the pastor at the time, St. Andrew’s in Graz. What looks like brute vandalism was presented as ‘artistic’. It has to be seen to be believed:
In 2024, one of Glettler’s own ‘artworks’ was permanently installed in the crypt of the newly-wreckovated cathedral of Berlin, Germany. Entitled Crossfit, it is a collection of crucifix corpuses, strung together, to create a kind of ‘net of salvation’. The corpuses had been taken off coffins that were ready to be incinerated in a cremation:
As frightful as all of the above examples of Glettler’s relationship with blasphemy are, especially the ‘Jesus Clock’ abomination, what was revealed by and about the scandalous Novus Ordo cleric in a 2018 film takes the cake.
We are talking about the documentary “Art Must Be Beautiful, the Frog Says to the Fly” (Kunst muss schön sein, sagt der Frosch zur Fliege) about the highly-disturbed and blasphemous Austrian ‘artist’ Christian Eisenberger. It was first released in March of 2019.
Part of the 93-minute film, which is still available for pay here, shows a clip from Glettler’s time at St. Andrew’s Church in Graz. In it, Glettler candidly admires one of Eisenberger’s most offensive creations, that of a frog being nailed to a cross:
(image: vincafilm.ch promotional material; cropped)
In the documentary, Glettler comments that he finds this particular piece “provocative” and notes that he “had to buy it” from Eisenberger so as to “remove it from the public eye”. Ah, was the then-pastor of St. Andrew’s just being prudent so that this wicked work would not scandalize the public? Far from it, for he clarifies in the same breath that his intention was “not to destroy it” but to show his “appreciation” of the work, so as to be able to “experience the provocation of the cross with this frog” again.
In fact, lest there be any misunderstanding, he subsequently refers to this mockery of Our Lord’s Crucifixion as a “terrific thing” (Superding), adding that it is “perhaps not meant for the public at large” — probably because he figured the public wouldn’t ‘appreciate’ it as much as he does. (And he would be right!)
Obviously, then, Glettler’s problem is not with blasphemy, nor with seeing someone or something other than Jesus Christ nailed to a cross. We can only conclude that his outrage over seeing a President Trump fastened to a cross is not due to his love for the God who is dishonored thereby, but is merely due to his disgust with the person of Donald Trump.
Again, to be clear: Glettler’s outrage about the ‘Trumpifix’ is entirely justified. It’s just irony on stilts.
Title image source: Alamy (IMAGO/Bildagentur Muehlanger)
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