"As for the Vatican @thermoplastic - their hypocrisy takes my breath away!"
@ricia you are painting the Vatican with a broad brush - criticism may be justified for many other issues concerning the Catholic Church, but here I think they should be lauded for lifting this veil of censorship. You are likely referring to what happened after the Reformation and the resulting Iconoclasm that marks the history of the Protestants, and in particular the Puritans that exported their brand of religious fervor to America, the basis of many of the more crazy churches you find there, such as the Westboro Baptist Church. As an aside, a joke that went around in my town among religios circles was: "The difference between a Baptist and a Methodist is that the Methodist can read" (not that they are any less crazy).
The Iconoclasm which took place after the Reformation was not much different than today's Taliban and the destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL.