The Independent - London, January 18th, 1997
"Our Christ is not a dead Christ," my father repeated. He was objecting to the Catholic cult of the crucifix. "The cross is an empty cross. Our Lord is all powerful." So he believed in the charismatic gifts, and above all in healing. But not in appearances of the Madonna. What kind of miracle would that be? And why were Catholics so ready to see their Madonnas cry? As if the poor woman were still contemplating her son's agony. A clergyman with responsibility for a large graveyard, my father told good corpse and coffin stories: the one that floated in the rainwater and had to be sunk with stone...
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