USA TODAY
By Kamilia Lahrichi
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| Argentine artists Emiliano Pool Paolini and Marianela Perelli polemical artwork featuring 33 Ken and Barbie dolls as religious figures, especially from Christianity, such as Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, in the POPA art gallery in Argentina. |
ARGENTINA---The exhibit, “
Barbie, The Plastic Religion,” has infuriated religious organizations globally, especially Catholic ones in Buenos Aires, Pope Francis' birthplace. “Barbie and Ken have offered for decades a model of a couple that attracts children of every age to play with them and identify with them,” said Adrian Santarelli, a priest at St. Thomas More parish in Buenos Aires. “The idea of dressing (dolls) with sacred images of sacred persons alters and damages the child’s levels of understanding of the sacred." [
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