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Jesuit artist’s exhibition ‘Twilight of the Idols’ finds new home at the Church of St. Francis Xavier after sudden Sheen Center cancellation

Jesuit artist’s exhibition ‘Twilight of the Idols’ finds new home at the Church of St. Francis Xavier after sudden Sheen Center cancellation

Published by Sam Flores

Originally scheduled for The Sheen Center, the exhibition now opens in the parish in partnership with Xavier High School, following concerns about the work NEW YORK — The Church of St. Francis Xavier and Xavier High School have stepped in to present “Nicholas Leeper, SJ: Twilight of the Idols,” an exhibition originally scheduled at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, which canceled the show following concerns about how the work might be received. The Church of St. Francis Xavier and Xavier High School are proud to provide a new home for the exhibition in support of Leeper and the way his work provokes, examines, and seeks to deepen the relationship between faith, culture, and a life of prayer. The exhibition will be on view from May 9 through May 29, with an opening reception following the 5:00 p.m. Mass on Saturday, May 9. The exhibition’s central work, Madonna and Child (Tomatokos), reimagines Mary as a mid-century housewife from a 1950s Campbell’s soup advertisement, holding a can of tomato soup in place of the infant Jesus. …

Is church unity worth a Latin Mass?

Is church unity worth a Latin Mass?

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — “Paris is well worth a Mass” was reportedly the attitude of King Henry IV when he was trying to secure the French throne. As a result, he converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1593.  Today, the Eucharist, which is supposed to be the sacrament of unity, is too often a battlefield between Catholics who support the Traditional Latin Mass and those who want to see it disappear. Both sides need to ask themselves whether the fight is worth something more important than Paris: the unity of the church. You must be my age to remember before the Second Vatican Council, when the liturgy was entirely in Latin in Catholic churches, except in those using Eastern Rite liturgies, where it was often in Greek. In Rome, it had been changed from Greek into Latin in the third and fourth centuries so the common people could understand it — a pragmatic decision, not a theological one. When I was young, we took it for granted that the Mass was in Latin. It was something that …