Religion: Christ of the Rockies

"Where is there a statue of Jesus Christ in all our nation, from north to south, from east to west? . . . We have a great beacon of the statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, a mighty shaft to honor our first President and a noble monument to our great Lincoln, in Washington, but we have no statue of Christ anywhere to signify that we are actually Christians and that we recognize Him as Christ the King." So last month spoke Rev. John Joseph Preston, a modest, retiring, 60-year-old Roman Catholic priest,...

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