Word: christs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have white angels who wear white robes with white wings. They too have bond hair and blue eyes. I can remember very vividly how my mother used to tell me all about the hangups of life. She would sit me down sometimes and explain from the scripture, "Christ had hair like unto that of sheep's wool and as white as snow," she would say. "The hair of all Black people turns white at an old age (what we call gray hair)." She would go on to say that only the hair of Blacks was knotty and kinky like sheep...
Most moving to the churchmen was an address on Christianity and the Negro by Novelist James Baldwin. The Negro's freedom, Baldwin charged in an odd metaphorical mix, has been "frozen or strangled at the root" because "the Christ I was presented with, though he was born in Nazareth under a very hot sun, was presented to me with blue eyes and blond hair; and all the virtues to which I, as a black man, was expected to aspire had by definition to be white...
...EUCHARIST. In recent years, some Catholic thinkers-primarily the Dutch -have questioned their church's difficult doctrine of transubstantiation- that the wafer and wine of the Mass are mystically changed into Christ's true body and blood. They have suggested, instead, a doctrine of "transignification," which argues that the change does not take place in the substance of the bread and wine but in the meaning. Pope Paul reaffirmed the literal interpretation, concluding: "In the reality itself, independently of our mind, the bread and wine have ceased to exist after the consecration, so that they are the adorable...
...description of what lies after death, despite the fact that modern theologians tend to interpret the Bible's previews more in terms of symbolism. "We believe in the life eternal," said Paul. "We believe that the souls of all those who die in the grace of Christ, whether they must still be purified in Purgatory or whether from the moment they leave their bodies Jesus takes them to Paradise, are the people of God in the eternity beyond death, which will be finally conquered on the day of the resurrection when these souls will be reunited with their bodies...
...poor priest (Francisco Rabal) in turn-of-the-century Mexico is Christ-like in his purity and simplicity. Therein lies his undoing. When a local whore is pursued by the police, he hides her and is defrocked by the church for his act of charity. He gives away his raiment and walks barefoot, only to be mocked by villagers. Wherever he goes, "Nazarin"-as the villagers call him- becomes synonymous with trouble. Finally, he shuffles off to oblivion in the custody of police...