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Or what not to say at an opening. 

Joachim Cardinal Meisner recently criticised degenerate art and culture at the blessing of the Diocesan Art Museum, the Kolumba, in Cologne.  His statements seemed to upset some of the German elite - it seems his choice of words reminded them of the Nazi regime’s contempt for degenerate modern art.  (Making a quick connection here - I wonder if this indicates that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is fascist?)  Anyway, the following is what the Cardinal said:

Cologne, Germany - A German Catholic archbishop triggered a storm in Germany Friday with an attack on irreligious culture. Cardinal Joachim Meisner was speaking at the blessing of his archdiocese’s new art museum, the Kolumba, in the heart of
Cologne.

“Wherever culture separates from the worship of God, the cult atrophies in ritualism and the art becomes degenerate,” he said.

Blunt criticism of art is rare in Germany, which still remembers how the Nazis pilloried the art they did not like as “degenerate.”

The use of the same term by the outspoken churchman brought him rebukes… - EARTHtimes.org 

I wonder if he could say something more about the degenerative design influences in neo-Catholic churches and chapels in his country and around the world?  Or the degenerative artistic novelties in many of the Novus Ordo liturgies that have been ‘celebrated’ throughout Germany and elsewhere over the years?  Or maybe he was doing that in his critique of the Museum?