By banning religious art on the Underground, TfL misunderstands what causes offence

Artists, said Pope Paul VI, are masters of “rendering accessible and comprehensible to the minds and hearts of our people the things of the spirit, the invisible, the ineffable, the things of God himself.” So I doubt he would be impressed with a decision by Transport for London to decline eight Stations of the Cross images that had been destined to adorn the walls of Tube stations in the run-up to Easter. Five were rejected outright, and in the case of the other three images, alternatives were requested, though the spokeswoman could not say whether any been submitted. Saturday’s Guardian reported that TfL had rejected Antony Micallef's Kill Your Idol, three works showing Jesus, stripped and wearing the crown of thorns, standing before not Pontius Pilate but a panel fr