Vatican attacks Danes on Jesus film

A bitter attack on the Danish Government for subsidising a film about the imagined sex life of Jesus Christ was issued on Monday by the Vatican. The film, "The Loves of Jesus Christ," has received a subsidy from the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs and will he directed by Jens Jeorgen Thorsen, 41, who plans to begin shooting shortly in France. He has already announced that his film will be "extremely obscene."
The Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, in its lengthy attack, said the Danish Government was guilty of "gravely offending and violating the rights of people who believe in these (Christian) values."
It said a State should not finance such enterprises but rather protect Christianity from the "infamous slander of an industry."
The newspaper charged that the experts who approved the subsidy were "members of those clans interested in the film's production or caught up in the taboos of a fatuous, infantile and iconoclastic pseudoculture." — Reuter.