{"id":9511,"date":"2013-04-15T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=9511"},"modified":"2013-04-15T09:23:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:23:03","slug":"homeless-jesus-has-no-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2013\/04\/homeless-jesus-has-no-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Jesus Has No Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Jesus replied, \u201cFoxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.\u201d \u2013 Matthew 8:20<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the Gospel of Matthew Jesus described himself as homeless.<\/p>\n

But apparently a couple of Roman Catholic churches in Toronto missed that verse.<\/p>\n

According to their administration \u2018Homeless Jesus\u2019 is just too controversial.<\/p>\n

That sounds about right.<\/p>\n

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Sculpture of Jesus the Homeless Rejected by Two Prominent Churches<\/h2>\n

By Leslie Scrivener, The Star<\/em><\/p>\n

Jesus has been depicted in art as triumphant, gentle or suffering. Now, in a controversial new sculpture in downtown Toronto, he is shown as homeless \u2014 an outcast sleeping on a bench.<\/p>\n

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It takes a moment to see that the slight figure shrouded by a blanket, hauntingly similar to the real homeless who lie on grates and in doorways, is Jesus. It\u2019s the gaping wounds in the feet that reveal the subject, whose face is draped and barely visible, as Jesus the Homeless.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Despite message of the sculpture \u2014 Jesus identifying with the poorest among us \u2014 it was rejected by two prominent Catholic churches, St. Michael\u2019s Cathedral in Toronto and St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHomeless Jesus had no home,\u201d says the artist,\u00a0TimothySchmalz,<\/a>\u00a0who specializes in religious sculpture. \u201cHow ironic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rectors of both cathedrals were enthusiastic about the bronze piece and showed Schmalz possible locations, but higher-ups in the New York and Toronto archdiocese turned it down, he says.<\/p>\n

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