By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine, Aug. 2, 2024
Austin Ruse is a contributing editor to Crisis Magazine. He is president of the Center for Family and Human Rights in New York and Washington DC. He is the author of several books including, Under Siege: No Finer Time to be a Faithful Catholic (Crisis Publications). He can be reached at austinruse@c-fam.org.
To lefty Catholics, the great evil is “conservatism,” so they will support anything that opposes it, and criticize anything that advances it.
There is an artistic photograph of Thomas Jolly hanging on a cross, wearing clown makeup. The image is unmistakably Christ on the Cross. Recall that Thomas Jolly is the director/choreographer who also designed the Olympic Opening Ceremony in Paris, where he was accused of blasphemously recreating the institution of the Eucharist, Da Vinci’s Last Supper.
Reporter Christine Niles says of the photograph, “I’m sure Jolly will tell us this is most certainly NOT based on the crucifixion of Christ but rather a pagan scarecrow.” Niles’s parting shot: “And some Christians will actually believe him.” …