{"id":32626,"date":"2016-03-23T11:51:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T16:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=32626"},"modified":"2016-03-23T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T16:57:57","slug":"the-homeless-jesus-comes-to-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/23\/the-homeless-jesus-comes-to-the-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"The Homeless Jesus Comes to the Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:13px;\">This is nice. A life-size sculpture of the Nazarene, depicted as a homeless person lying down on a bench, has been placed at the entrance of the Office of Papal Charities. It was created by Canadian sculptor Timothy P. Schmalz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Homeless-Jesus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32627\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Homeless-Jesus.jpg\" alt=\"Homeless Jesus\" width=\"364\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastampa.it\/2016\/03\/23\/vaticaninsider\/eng\/the-vatican\/the-homeless-jesus-comes-to-the-vatican-LtgEB9BV6cJbnlHSyWNp1O\/pagina.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:13px;\">BTW, an application to install this sculpture at the front of Methodist Central Hall Westminster was refused earlier by the City of Westminster Council because \u201cthe proposed sculpture would fail to maintain or improve the character or appearance of the\u2026 Parliament Square Conservation Area\u201d owing to \u201cits location within the City Council\u2019s Monument Saturation Zone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pope Francis walked over to the sculpture, and it was just chilling because he touched the knee of the Jesus the Homeless sculpture, and closed his eyes and prayed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-architecture","category-liturgical-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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