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Whale in a German Cathedral

A giant art sculpture cast from the body of a dead humpback whale is being displayed during Lent from February 22 (1st Sunday of Lent) to March 22, 2026 (Passion Sunday), in St. Victor’s Cathedral, a historic gothic Catholic church in Xanten, in the Diocese of Münster, Germany, below last row left.

The 46-foot-long sculpture is the fruit of the “Cast Whale Project,” a creation by the Israeli artist Gil Schachar, below last row left.

Auxiliary Bishop Rolf Lohmann, last row right, supported the work and presided over a “service” around the enormous cetacean, above and below first row. The Diocesan paper, Kirche und Leben (Church and Life), published a piece promoting the art work, which reads:

“With this stranded dead animal, we essentially have the entire message of death and resurrection vividly before us. It is not a coincidence that the art installation is taking place in Xanten Cathedral during Lent. It is intended to encourage us to focus on the question of responsibility for creation and climate justice.”

Instead of meditating on the life and death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, today's Progressivist Church replaced it with meditating on a whale. This is how the new ecological and tribalist revolution is entering once-civilized Germany, following in the path of the conciliar Popes, especially Francis' Encyclical Laudato si

Let us not forget that Tribalism is the next step after Communism.

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Posted March 1, 2026

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