Does the pope need some new clothes? Papal regalia, insignia, and garb adorned with gold trimmings and jewels are just some of the excesses coming from popes who now regularly chide us for driving our SUV's and advise us against the new "sin" of globull warming.
We here at Landover Baptist Church are regularly chastised for calling out the cathylicks as idolaters and their Mary worshiping cult. The cathylicks are going to have a hard time explaining their egregious 14 million pieces of Venetian glass weighing 24 tons as anything other than Mary worshiping.
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After a century, the largest Catholic church in North America is finally complete
Sharon Samber, Religion News Service Published 12:13 p.m. ET Dec. 9, 2017
Updated 11:46 a.m. ET Dec. 11, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The largest Catholic church in North America is now complete.
After 100 years of construction, thousands of worshippers Friday witnessed the blessing of 24 tons of Venetian glass that embellish the dome of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Called the “Trinity Dome,” the glass mosaic is the final architectural element of the church, a shrine to Mary which sits next to the Catholic University of America and is visited by nearly 1 million people a year.
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The Trinity Dome is one of the largest mosaic installations of its kind in the world, composed of more than 14 million pieces of glass. It depicts the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Mary, a procession of saints and angels, the four evangelists and the Nicene Creed. It also includes stained-glass windows dedicated to the many donors to the dome.
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Pope Francis, who visited the basilica in 2015, sent a letter marking the dedication in which he expressed hope that all who look at the depiction of Mary in the dome may “with new vigor and new ardor of charity, show forth special love for the Church of Christ and the Gospel, even in our own age.”
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ete/937410001/
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