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In his weekly column, Paul Waldman of the American Prospect does a good job of highlighting a bizarre exchange during recent U.S. Supreme Court arguments in which Justice Antonin Scalia seemed ...

Today, the cross is the universal symbol of Christianity. It was not always so. In the early centuries after the time of Jesus Christ, there were other symbols: a dove, a ship, an anchor and a lyre.

For as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit explained in a different case a few years ago, “a memorial Cross is not a generic symbol of death; it is a Christian symbol of death that ...

The symbol of the anchor, with its crossbar, resembles a cross. An anchor and two fish (probably from the third century) occur together on a grave slab in the catacomb of Domitilla in Rome.

However, the cross at times has also taken on darker meanings as a symbol of persecution, violence and even racism. Cross, 1200-1250, unknown artist (Smithsonian American Art Museum) The early cross ...

If the cross is a generic symbol to honor the dead, then why not argue it's so neutral a symbol that it could be placed on non-Christian houses of worship? It's obvious that would never fly.

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The Christian cross has become little more than a piece of jewelry worn around the necks of celebrities, said Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. In the foreword to a new ...