He performs a constant sacrifice of the banal, everyday object, as though it were a newfound Christ (the cult of the object is a new religio).
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While some theologians argue that a celibate priest is following the example of a celibate Christ, the question is open to interpretation.
Beneath a gorgeous gilded canopy, golden arms stretching to the heavens, supporting a gigantic figure of a resplendent Christ, two lines of priest in purple robes walk forward two-by-two.
Also striking are the photographs of religious statuary, notably a crucified Christ, which underline the empathy the impoverished Mexicans in Strand's photos must have felt for those whose suffering was as great as their own.
Among some controversial choices was a sculpture of Christ, the current Marc Quinn piece of a pregnant woman with no arms or legs and a brief unauthorised appearance of a waxwork of David Beckham.
At Phillips, an untitled Basquiat charcoal and crayon work on paper shows a black man, Christ-like beneath a crown of thorns.
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The remark referenced a gospel passage in which Jesus Christ sleeps amid a storm at sea and then awakes to calm the tempest.
They did not sing or play a concert in Christ the Savior.
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John, finding himself before the Throne of God, sees a lamb, an image of Christ, who receives a scroll sealed by seven seals.
On the south wall, there is a picture of Christ, before the crucifixion, roped and bound and sitting before the cross, said Dr Grey.
For a more Catholic flavor, try the Procession of Our Lord of Passion , when a statue of Christ is paraded through the streets to Macau Cathedral.
But Benedict suggested that its future, "at a time when many speak of its decline, " lies in seeing it as a community of many people united in a love of Christ, rather than as an organization.
As a Puritan fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, he was bound to a regime of sermons and chapel-going.
At least a dozen congregations have already left to join Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ, a small association of conservative churches.
He asserted that Greek rationalism and Abrahamic spirituality had fused, a couple of centuries before the coming of Christ, in a providential synthesis.
Garza Medina is the eldest sibling of a powerful family in Monterrey who sponsored Father Marcial Maciel, the Mexican founder of the Legion of Christ, a Catholic group marred by allegations of sexually abusing children, who died in 2008.
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She made a commitment to serving Jesus Christ and was not about to back away from her call to ministry because a male-dominated organization decided that its interpretation of the Bible calls for a woman not to be in the pulpit.
Mr. IZRAEL: Well, me, I'm always skeptical of people who find Christ in a crisis.
In a famous episode, Christ on the Cross came to life three times in the small Church of St.
Scott Weidner, president of Transport for Christ, a 58-year-old company that provides mobile chapels to truck stops in North America, knows Hunter.
Miss Morse said if you crouched down next to Mr Suddards's body you could see a reflection of Jesus Christ in the mirror.
For him, a statue of Zeus enthroned or Christ crucified would have been an impediment to belief, a mere lump of shaped matter.
They, like you, like me, have a saviour in Jesus Christ, and they, like you, like me, are equal in the eyes of the Father.
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Among respondents who identified themselves as Christian, fewer than half said they believed Jesus Christ was a real person who died, came back to life and was the son of God.
He quoted from Benedict when he told the cardinals that while they are "princes" of the church, their leader is the crucified Christ, a further admonition against attachment to temporal power.
Ms. Rice, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1998, has veered away from monsters in her recent novels, focusing on the life of Jesus Christ and a series about an angel and a hired assassin.
So the shelves remained packed with gaudy shrine paraphernalia, from portraits of Christ with a halo of flashing green, yellow and blue fairy lights, to depictions of the Last Supper illuminated with almost psychedelic colours.
True, as Pope, he moved swiftly and decisively against the Legion of Christ, a Catholic religious order and favourite of John Paul II for its militant orthodoxy, but whose founder, it was revealed, was himself a sexual predator.
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The son of a diplomat, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and at the University of Surrey where he got a postgraduate degree.
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