MOCRA Director to lecture on “The Wounded Body of Christ”

Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) Director Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J. will speak on “The Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Conscience,” at a free public lecture on Sunday, March 28, 2:00 p.m. A reception will follow the talk.

Fr. Dempsey’s lecture will offer an overview of how images associated with the suffering and death of Jesus still have vitality, even in a pluralistic world. Images referring to the events of Good Friday have been employed by the artists of our time not only to manifest an expression of faith but more frequently to address life and death realities such as war, bigotry, poverty, oppression, genocide, sickness and pandemics in order to stimulate empathetic responses within the viewers.