{"id":93462,"date":"2024-02-14T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/pope-francis-to-visit-prestigious-venice-biennale-art-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:20:00","slug":"pope-francis-to-visit-prestigious-venice-biennale-art-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/pope-francis-to-visit-prestigious-venice-biennale-art-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis to visit prestigious Venice Biennale art exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Holy See Pavilion will be located at the women\u2019s prison on Venice\u2019s Giudecca island. The exhibition, organized by the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education, is titled \u201cWith My Eyes\u201d and has human rights for marginalized populations as a central theme.<\/p>\n<p>Artists Maurizio Cattelan, Bintou Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, Simone Fattal, Claire Fontaine, Sonia Gomes, Corita Kent, Marco Perego, Zoe Saldana, Claire Tabouret, and Hans Ulrich Obrist will be featured in the Vatican pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican has participated in the Art Biennale since 2013. The first Holy See Pavilion, commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI, used the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis as its narrative thread.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis\u2019 one-day trip to Venice will also include a meeting with the local Catholic community and Patriarch Francesco Moraglia of Venice.<\/p>\n<p>The last papal trip to Venice was in 2011 by Benedict XVI, who traveled across the Grand Canal in the same gondola as Pope John Paul II did in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis does not have any international trips on his official schedule for 2024 but has said that he wants to visit Belgium, Argentina, and Polynesia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '284567475785076');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\nCredit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/256826\/pope-francis-to-visit-prestigious-venice-biennale-art-exhibition\"target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy See Pavilion will be located at the women\u2019s prison on Venice\u2019s Giudecca island. The exhibition, organized by the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education, is titled \u201cWith My Eyes\u201d and has human rights for marginalized populations as a central theme. Artists Maurizio Cattelan, Bintou Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, Simone Fattal, Claire Fontaine, Sonia Gomes, Corita Kent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pope Francis to visit prestigious Venice Biennale art exhibition - WORLD CATHOLIC NEWS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/pope-francis-to-visit-prestigious-venice-biennale-art-exhibition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope Francis to visit prestigious Venice Biennale art exhibition - WORLD CATHOLIC NEWS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Holy See Pavilion will be located at the women\u2019s prison on Venice\u2019s Giudecca island. 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