[Barf Alert] No, Woke Pontifical Academy for Life, there isn't a "Black Jesus"...

Rorate Caeli ^ | September 14, 2020 | New Cathollic

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[Barf Alert] No, Woke Pontifical Academy for Life, there isn't a "Black Jesus"...

Carrara marble is beautiful: the smoothness and intense light of this particular stone made it a favorite of masters in the Italian renaissance.

One of the greatest pieces is, of course, Michelangelo Buonarroti's "Pietà", in the Vatican Basilica, carefully restored after an attack made on it in the pontificate of Paul VI. Since the marble is white, the sculpture is all white: not just skin...but draperies, clothes, everything -- obviously.

Apparently, the currently woke-led Pontifical Academy for Life thinks attacking this image again, now virtually, is fair game for its "virtue-signaling" purposes:

We refuse to accept this creepy wokeness. There isn't a "Black Jesus" or a "White Jesus" (in this case, a Marble Jesus...).

There is only one Christ, truly born of the Virgin Mary, Son of David, Lion of Judah, Glory of Israel, Man and God, Lord of All, the Desired of All Nations, the Redeemer of all peoples. 

Enough, Archbishop Paglia! Enough!

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Ping

[Skywise]

White marble is raciss

[Bayard]

Just a Archbishop that wants to advance the destruction of human civilization because he is bought and served by another master.

[Hambone 1934]

The academy helps the liberal anti Catholics in charge to destroy the faithful...

[BlessedBeGod]

I pray for Paglia every day at 3:00. He's one of the worst.

[Varda]

Archbishop Paglia

Any communications to said Archbishop should include somewhere that homosexual behavior is “intrinsically disordered”.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

What are they crying about? They already have the Black Madonna in Poland and Russia.

[ebb tide]

Most all the souls in Paglia's homo-erotic mural in his cathedral were caucasian.

But now he's "woke"!

[hinckley buzzard]

Now why would a perfectly white Mary have a perfectly Black son? Idiots abound In The Vatican.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That's not a problem, --- in those cases, because they are the result of the aging/oxidation and darkening of the lacquers and pigments used on the original art.

But 2 millennia of art show the irrepressible devotion of the artists in portraying Jesus and His Blessed Mother in the noblest and most beautiful ways they can conceive. This will vary by cultural epoch. There is nothing wrong with this. It is the homage of the artist's heart.

"...for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.

--Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Kingfisher"

[Mrs. Don-o]

In the original, they have no flesh tones at all. It’s all canberra marble.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’ve read the darkening came from centuries of votive candles, much like the Sistine Chapel was darkened from years of candles, till restored.