Paul Mariani S J has given us a first-rate product here All scholars of modern Chinese Christian history are in his debt as are all scholars of church history in any part of the world Mariani rsquo s strategy is simple To tell the story of the Communist attempt to subdue the recalcitrant Cath
Garry Wills views the priesthood as a zero-sum game: either reject it or accept it uncritically.
"Crucifixion,” a wall-sized oil painting created by Renato Guttuso (1911-87), one of Italy’s finest modern painters, is widely recognized as a 20th-century masterpiece today. But a year after the painting was unveiled in Rome in 1941, during World War II, it sparked controversy. Gut
Kissing the cross,O precious cross,it blisters the lipslike the hot coalheld to Isaiah.O holy cross,there is a body on itwith a deep woundthe wound dealt by the worldto the hopes of God.O beautiful Godunrecognizablewho could not let us bein our blind man’s bluffour cruel humorsO spent fleshtha
But we had hoped he was the one to redeem Israel rdquo There it is in a short summary sentence the end of their hope When hope is placed in the past tense it is over You get up share a last word and embrace with your friends dust yourself off and begin to walk home The Greek tense of the v
The oft-byzantine particulars of religious practice can be almost impossible to communicate effectively.
In Paris, beholding the wood of the cross is suddenly avant-garde.