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James C. sends this startling image from his latest trip, explaining: From the Minster in Konstanz, on Lake Konstanz (yes, where the 15th-century Catholic Ecumenical Council took place and the new pope was chosen to end the Western Schism) Can anybody explain this allegorical image?
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Rod Dreher
Oct 13, 2013 4:54 PM

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James C. sends this startling image from his latest trip, explaining:

From the Minster in Konstanz, on Lake Konstanz (yes, where the 15th-century Catholic Ecumenical Council took place and the new pope was chosen to end the Western Schism)

Can anybody explain this allegorical image?

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