Word: crucifixions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX CENTER has the controversial film Parable, which shows the crucifixion of a clown in whiteface. The controversy seems to be between those who feel the film is art and those who think it's sacrilege. Most people probably know already which side they're likely to be on. If not, there's one way to find...
...Deicide? The original draft was composed by Augustin Cardinal Bea of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and declared that guilt for the death of Jesus was borne by all mankind. Therefore, it said, sermons and catechism lessons should not misuse the Gospel accounts of the Crucifixion to imply that the Jews were guilty of deicide. This declaration was bitterly opposed by Catholic bishops from the Middle East, who share the anti-Israel feelings of their Moslem neighbors, and by many European conservatives, who argued that Bea's text ran counter to what the New Testament plainly...
PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX CENTER has the controversial film, Parable, which shows the crucifixion of a clown in white face...
...done with you, she'd wish for the fines. I'd punch your head in." To a Negro from the South, he shouted: "If you have another accident, I'll make you wish you were back in Mississippi." The judge threatened an Italian immigrant with "another crucifixion" if the defendant failed to stop driving...
...themes that dominate his work, Manzù is unmistakably an heir of Renaissance tradition. Yet his sculpture has not always pleased a church that takes pride in the Michelangelo who painted St. Peter's Sistine Chapel ceiling. In 1947 the Holy Office denounced as "obscene" a Manzù crucifixion scene that depicted a totally naked Christ. Last year, after viewing a plaster cast of the doors, Vatican representatives objected to four of the panels as too profane: Cain and Abel, death by hanging, death of a mother, death in space. Manzù, who is not a practicing Roman Catholic...