My Sweet Lord

Sculptor Cosimo Cavallaro has single-handedly managed to infuriate the Catholic League and thousands of Catholics with his sculpture of an unclothed Jesus, made purely of milk chocolate.

The eccentric sculpture, which has generated a riot, measures 1.8 m and weighs over 90 kilos. A Manhattan gallery was planning to exhibit “My Sweet Lord,” as Cavallaro has titled his work, but the overwhelming number of complaints received from Catholics, including Cardinal Edward Egan, has deterred it.

People are indignant that the artist’s chocolate representation of Jesus Christ includes no loincloth, as religious portrayals usually do and that the gallery, found in the Roger Smith Hotel, intended to display the work during Holy Week.

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