Trivializing the cross ignores its radical claims.(Reflection)

National Catholic Reporter | February 27, 2004| | Copyright

I often see someone wearing a cross on a chain around the neck. I hope it's a sign of faith. Recently, I saw a man with a cross on his cuff links and a woman with little crosses as bangles on her bracelet. I also saw hundreds of crosses on a wallpaper border. So, good uses and questionable uses. I wondered where the boundary to the trivial is. If familiarity does not breed contempt, it may breed indifference so the shame and glory of the cross are lost.

In antiquity death on the cross was limited to foreigners, people of the lowest class, particularly slaves. Cicero, ...

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