That is sad. I guess section 124 of Sacrosanctum Concilium applies here:

"Let bishops carefully remove from the house of God and from other sacred places those works of artists which are repugnant to faith, morals, and Christian piety, and which offend true religious sense either by depraved forms or by lack of artistic worth, mediocrity and pretense"

If the bishop has the authority to remove doesn't he also have to authority to add?

That's disgusting! Liturgical vandalism is a good way to put it.

We can only hope that some new pastor in the future will execute a re-redo.

Egad! It's the dreaded counter counter reformation!

Our only hope is to initiate a counter counter counter reformation.

I thought that although liturgical abuse needed correction, issues such as formation of moral conscience and orthodoxy in teaching must take precedence and that too much energy is spent correcting liturgical abuse which as far as I know is only a venial sin.

Though now that I see these pictures, I can no longer say "we must not elevate non-doctrinal norms to the level of doctrine" with the same smug complacency. Please tell me this was originally a piece from the Agnus Daily or the Onion.

I really have a hard time detecting the satire when it comes to Catholic issues. I used to go by "if it's patently ridiculous, then it is satire and not news" approach but that has stopped working now that the news is also patently ridiculous.