Category: Catholic Culture
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The Vatican’s Mysterious Resurrection Sculpture: Nuclear War, Hidden Symbolism, and the Triumph of Christ Over Death
Behind the pope in the Vatican’s great audience hall stands one of the most unusual religious sculptures ever created. Its twisted bronze branches, devastated landscape, and mysterious central figure have inspired fascination, controversy, and even accusations of demonic imagery. But the remarkable story behind Pericle Fazzini’s The Resurrection reveals something very different: an artist’s attempt…
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The Strange Freedom of Surrender
Reading Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain Some books are interesting. Others make you uncomfortable in exactly the way a good spiritual book should. Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain did that for me. I expected a conversion story. And, of course, that is what the book is: Merton’s account of his restless early life,…