The alien image of Christ

Cardinal Danneels at the Conclave leaves behind a devastated vineyard, after two and a half decades in charge of the Belgian Church. But, with his little concealed ambition to become Pope, what vision of Our Lord and Saviour does he take with him to the Conclave. One indication is in a side chapel of the Pro-Cathedral in Brussels, where an exhibition was established this Easter on the theme of the Passion. This is the central exhibit. And on each of the panels, a Christ stripped not only of divinity, but also of humanity in fact an alien form.  
 

 The alien Christ of Cardinal Danneels 
 

 A close-up. 
 

 To the right of the alien Christs: this is meant to be the body of Our Lord and Saviour. 
 

 To the left of the alien Christs: the vision of Calvary in modern Catholic Belgium. 
 

 The exhibition was placed on the opposite side of the nave to the chapel where the picture of Pope John Paul II was placed.