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Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Service Showcased the Unadulterated Gospel, by Jules Gomes – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Léon Bonnat, “Christ on the Cross”, c. 1874 (photo: Public Domain)

By Jules Gomes, The Stream, September 30, 2025

Canon Dr. Jules Gomes (BA, BD, MTh, PhD) has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.

“The great exchange between Christ and sinners … is the core of biblical soteriology”

Nearly two thousand years ago, the world’s most powerful empire advertised its consummate contempt for the cross. Rome exempted its citizens from crucifixion, except in grave cases of treason. The Roman statesman, Cicero, condemned the cross as crudelissimum taeterrimumque supplicum (“a most cruel and disgusting punishment”).

In his defense of the elderly Senator Rabirus, who was charged with murder, Cicero insisted that “the very word ‘cross’ should be removed not only from the person of a Roman citizen, but from his thoughts, his eyes, and his ears.” …

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