Word: crucifixion
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According to one witness, the outburst occurred after Daley described two sacrifices preceding the crucifixion of Christ. The man then stood up and yelled, "This man is lying to you. There was only one sacrifice and that was the sacrifice of Jesus Christ...
According to Malone, the sermon intended to assert that the crucifixion was the ultimate sacrifice...
...client is four year-old Jerry Parker, who Wilson suspects knows some secret about the recent kidnapping of the boy's sister. When the play therapy comes close to revealing a name. Corder receives threats to leave the case alone. The plot seems prosaic until the first threat--the crucifixion of Corder's cat on his door--is carried out. The perpetrator of this violence keeps the reader guessing what his next move will...
...Protestants have vehemently opposed her exaltation; papal pronouncements concerning her status have driven a wedge between the Vatican and the Eastern / Orthodox Church. Conflict surrounds the notions that she remained ever a virgin, that she as well as Jesus was born without sin and that her sufferings at the Crucifixion were so great that she participated with her son in the redemption of humanity...
...revisionist views of the Madonna claim her as an active heroine who was variously an earth mother and a crusader for social justice. Mary, says Sister Lavinia Byrne, who works with non-Catholic groups in Britain, stood by loyally during her son's crucifixion while all but one of his male disciples ran away. Her agreement to bear the Son of God, argues Ivone Leal of Portugal's Commission on the Status of Women, was the act of "a strong woman. She followed her son's adventurous life, which was known to be doomed to failure, and always sustained...