"CAVE CANEM"
The Doors to Heaven or Demagoguery?
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I'm having a "devil of a time" figuring out which one of my many "door photos" to enter in a contest any suggestions?
These angel embedded doors are to an entrance of the National Shrine of the Little Flower a Church built almost entirely through the fiery political rhetoric of one Charles Edward Coughlin an Irish, Canadian-born Roman Catholic priest who lead his flock out of the Royal Oak, Michigan parish. In recent years he has been recast as the father of "hate radio" and Rush Limbaugh and the likes. Still some have recognized his more obvious relationships to populist catholic movements like "liberation theology" with its usual suspects international bankers, modernism, capitalism, and "hidden foreign hands" etc. as being responsible for domestic economic policy failures. With his declaration that, "The New Deal is Christ's Deal." he may very well have been, on the vanguard of 20th century blending of "church and state."
In the end Father Coughlin's demagoguery inevitably led to several public pre-war rants (WWII) filled with virulent jew-hatred (anti-Semitism), which just goes to prove that even the most pious can be intoxicated or seduced by fame and their own sense of virtue.
Still the building to which these gilded doors belong to is one of the more brilliant architectural creations of the early twentieth century. The dramatic limestone Art Deco tower called the Charity Crucifixion Tower, was built first and completed in 1931, it features integrated figural sculpture by Rene Paul Chambellan, including a large figure of Christ on the cross, 28 feet high. The main building is granite and limestone, with elaborate interior sculptural work by Corrado Parducci and hand-painted murals by Beatrice Wilczynski.
C.C.
The Doors to Heaven or Demagoguery?
View the portal On Black
I'm having a "devil of a time" figuring out which one of my many "door photos" to enter in a contest any suggestions?
These angel embedded doors are to an entrance of the National Shrine of the Little Flower a Church built almost entirely through the fiery political rhetoric of one Charles Edward Coughlin an Irish, Canadian-born Roman Catholic priest who lead his flock out of the Royal Oak, Michigan parish. In recent years he has been recast as the father of "hate radio" and Rush Limbaugh and the likes. Still some have recognized his more obvious relationships to populist catholic movements like "liberation theology" with its usual suspects international bankers, modernism, capitalism, and "hidden foreign hands" etc. as being responsible for domestic economic policy failures. With his declaration that, "The New Deal is Christ's Deal." he may very well have been, on the vanguard of 20th century blending of "church and state."
In the end Father Coughlin's demagoguery inevitably led to several public pre-war rants (WWII) filled with virulent jew-hatred (anti-Semitism), which just goes to prove that even the most pious can be intoxicated or seduced by fame and their own sense of virtue.
Still the building to which these gilded doors belong to is one of the more brilliant architectural creations of the early twentieth century. The dramatic limestone Art Deco tower called the Charity Crucifixion Tower, was built first and completed in 1931, it features integrated figural sculpture by Rene Paul Chambellan, including a large figure of Christ on the cross, 28 feet high. The main building is granite and limestone, with elaborate interior sculptural work by Corrado Parducci and hand-painted murals by Beatrice Wilczynski.
C.C.