Word: crucifix
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Francis-between eye and eye. Fish float in the sky, evoking the early Christian ichthys; a wretched tar baby hangs on a crucifix. It is a moralizing vision, as the grotesque ought to be: Alexander's art has always had a strong political and religious strain...
Clad in a golden chasuble and wearing his gold mitre, John Paul held a crucifix in his left hand as he spread his arms wide to offer his blessing to the multitude. The Pope stood beneath a 40-ft. white crucifix with the image of Christ in reverse relief, as if the body had been scooped out of the cross, and delivered a homily in which he called for national reconciliation through "mutual dialogue and agreement." The crowd broke into applause when he declared that "I, too, have lived deeply the whole experience of these years since August...
...most nights until the wee hours, he averages four to six hours of sleep a night. More often than not, these work hours pay off. In 1979 the Archdiocese of Boston phoned him 10 days before the Pope was due to arrive to ask him to sculpt the processional crucifix. The artist did it in seven...
...Good Friday the 14 students in the group joined forces with the Yale Divinity School and other Northeastern theological schools to stage a non-violent "witness" or vigil outside the Electric Boat Co, in Groton, Conn., where Trident submarines are manufactured. More than 30 students lashed their arms crucifix-style to the fence and were arrested, and four Harvard students were arrested for planting flowers outside a memorial to the individuals who gave money for the Trident project. Kim Harvie, a second year MDiv students and one of those arrested, points to the symbolism of staging the witness on Good...
...Solidarity was the question of defining policy and strategy. In the beginning, Walesa insisted that Solidarity should be a pure and simple labor movement, not a political opposition. On the day he showed up at a Gdansk apartment building to open Solidarity's first makeshift headquarters, a wooden crucifix under his arm and a bouquet of flowers in his right hand, Walesa told a crowd of reporters, "I am not interested in politics. I am a union man. My job now is to organize the union...