POLISH ARTIST CONVICTED OF BLASPHEMY

A Polish court has ruled that an artist who exhibited an image of a man’s penis attached to a cross broke the Roman Catholic country’s law on blasphemy, MSNBC reports. A leading Polish daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, said the conviction of artist Danuta Nieznalska in the Baltic port of Gdansk was the first known instance in Poland of anyone being convicted for offending religious sensibilities.