Has Benedict XVI disposed of the CCC?

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EasterJoy said:
It doesn’t scare me, but I wouldn’t argue with anyone who held that opinion. It certainly is…forceful. :rolleyes:

(Now watch, it will give me nightmares. Thanks, alot!)
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It reminds me a great deal of the sanctuary crucifix at the cathedral in Los Angeles.
 
I assume we are talking about the crosier that all Bishops and Popes have as part of thier office.
Traditionally it is shaped like a staff / crook which shepherds use to catch stray sheep, some of the posts concerns are about the lack of a corpus on the cross and could be the same reason as a Bishops pectoral cross is without a corpus; it is because the wearer (Bishop, Pope) is to be the Christ.
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childofmary1143 said:
That’s a comment that “Roman Protestants” say about the Crucifix too. Any Crucifix.
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Like I said before, I found it has majesty and strength. I like it, but then maybe we should all be afraid, but not of the Crucifix.🙂 Peace.
 
childofmary1143 said:
That’s a comment that “Roman Protestants” say about the Crucifix too. Any Crucifix.
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Are you saying that only a Protestant could dislike a crucifix, regardless of the style the artist chose to use? That’s a bit extreme.
 
EasterJoy said:
Are you saying that only a Protestant could dislike a crucifix, regardless of the style the artist chose to use? That’s a bit extreme.
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No what I am saying is that its not very Catholic to criticize a particular crucifix style based on one’s own personal tastes.
 
Spiller said:
Here is the kind of company kept by those who attack Pope Paul VI’s papal crucifix:

cuttingedge.org/News/n2029.cfm

greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001dc9

cephasministry.com/world_pope_black_magick.html

theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/bent_cross.htm

Sheeesh 😦
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And people really believe this. What in the world is happening to our minds. It’s like when God said its time for brains and people thought he said rains and ran for cover.
Prayers & blessings
Deacon Ed b
 
saint_rafael said:
Yes he has thank God. The new cross is the one Pope Puis IX used. Traditionally, Popes have used crosses as staffs. Slowly, Pope Benedict is bringing in some tradition.

The Crooked Creepy Crucifix should make Catholics shudder. It’s weird and Crooked Crucifixes have generally been used by Satanists over the centuries for mocking.
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Can you post some links demonstrating this?

The bent-tree crucifix was a common form in mediaeval Bavaria and suggests the connection between the tree of the forbidden fruit n Eden and the Cross.
 
mercygate said:
Can you post some links demonstrating this?

The bent-tree crucifix was a common form in mediaeval Bavaria and suggests the connection between the tree of the forbidden fruit n Eden and the Cross.
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That’s where my German crucifixes are from, Bavaria! I’ve two, one bent upwards and looking very like a tree, the other curving downward, even more so than the so-called “CCC.”
 
JKirkLVNV said:
That’s where my German crucifixes are from, Bavaria! I’ve two, one bent upwards and looking very like a tree, the other curving downward, even more so than the so-called “CCC.”
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We have a standing one on the kitchen plate rail – in the corner, right where it would be in a Bavarian kitchen.

I find it compelling.
 
childofmary1143 said:
No what I am saying is that its not very Catholic to criticize a particular crucifix style based on one’s own personal tastes.
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I think honest feedback is OK, as long as you make it clear that it is the style of art that you find less than inspiring, and not the fact that the Cross has a Corpus on it.
 
EasterJoy said:
I think honest feedback is OK, as long as you make it clear that it is the style of art that you find less than inspiring, and not the fact that the Cross has a Corpus on it.
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True. It’s sad when people actually think in this manner:
saint_rafael said:
Yes he has thank God. The new cross is the one Pope Puis IX used. Traditionally, Popes have used crosses as staffs. Slowly, Pope Benedict is bringing in some tradition.

The Crooked Creepy Crucifix should make Catholics shudder. It’s weird and Crooked Crucifixes have generally been used by Satanists over the centuries for mocking.
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Jesus didn’t die on a perfectly carved out cross. His cross was probably bent.
 
Here’s another example of a tree-cross:

1map.com

Medieval Wall Painting in the English Parish Church:A Developing Catalogue

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Christ Crucified on a Lily, Godshill, Isle of Wight (Portsmouth) c.1450

As for a bent cross:

http://www.haverford.edu/relg/faculty/amcguire/imagesmm/grunewaldcr.jpg

Matthias Grünewald’s Crucifixion from the Isenheim Altarpiece, 1512-1516

Here are some of his other crucifixions:

-Crucifixion Drawing (1501-1502)
-The Crucifixion, ca. 1501
-The Small Crucifixion, ca. 1502
-The Crucifixion, 1523-1524
 
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