Pope Francis Addresses Artists, Including Creator of Blasphemous Crucifix Photo
The Pope said the Church has a great friendship with the arts, which can bring much-needed hope to the world through beauty, harmony, and truth.
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The Story Behind the Viral Photo of a Ukrainian Man Hugging a Crucifix
The photographer, Dennis Melnichuk, snapped the image outside the Catholic Bernardine monastery and church in Lviv on Feb. 24.
Argentine Boy Saved from Stray Bullet by Crucifix
Tiziano‘s family contacted José Romero Silva, a journalist from Telefé, Jan. 1 to explain how the boy’s life was saved: the bullet hit in the middle of the small metal crucifix that the boy received as a gift from his father.
Pope Francis: The Cross Reminds Us of the Sacrifices of the Christian Life
Pope Francis' catechesis centered on the day’s Gospel reading from St. Matthew, when Jesus begins to reveal to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, suffer, be killed, and on the third day be raised.
Pope Francis: The Entirety of God’s Love is Found in the Crucifix
The pope said the first point he wanted to make in his homily is that Christ’s death on the cross for our salvation shows the “madness” of God’s love for his children.
Christ Is Risen, So Why Is There a Crucifix in Every Church?
The Crucifixion shows us most clearly what true love looks like.
Why Do Catholics ... ?
Why do Catholics venerate the crucifix with Jesus on the cross — while, in comparison, other denominations of Christianity only have a cross with nothing on it?
Pope Francis's Reception Of 'Communist Crucifix' Causes Controversy
The cross with a hammer and sickle, apparently to represent a hope for dialogue between communism and the Church, is a reproduction of another carved during the 1970s by Father Luis Espinal Camps, a Spanish Jesuit a missionary in Bolivia, who was killed in 1980 during the Bolivian dictatorship.
