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To prepare the rooms for non-Catholics at the Assisi interreligious gatherings, they removed the excellent Italian crucifixes from the walls. I saw a photo of a big pile of crucifixes haphazardly stacked up, as if an invading Moslem horde had been there. 
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What became of those crucifixes was not described.
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Now it seems they had to get rid of the old to make way for the new, like with so many things in Newchurch.

Da, quaesumus, Domine, populo tuo diabolia vitare contagia:
et te solum Deum pura mente sectari.

Grant, O Lord, unto Thy people grace to avoid all contact with the devil,
and with pure minds to follow Thee, the only God.

Collect for XVII Sunday after Pentecost

Do you have an enlargement of the pectoral cross usually worn by Francis?

From a distance, it appears to be some kind of bas relief or modern art.

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The veritas-vincit page with all the bad news crosses of Francis:
https://veritas-vincit-international.org/2017/12/03/is-pope-francis-promoting-a-a-new-kind-of-cross-2/
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Communist hammer-and-sickle mockery of Christ

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On July 8, 2015, Pope Francis received – and subsequently kept – a “Communist crucifix” as a gift from Bolivian President Evo Morales (left).  The cross was presented by President Morales to Pope Francis upon his arrival in Bolivia during his South American tour.
According to reports, Morales told Francis that the “Communist crucifix” was modeled on a design created by the Rev. Luis Espinal, a politically active priest killed in Bolivia in 1980. The Pope stopped and prayed at the site of the shooting of Rev. Espinal.
One of Espinal’s friends and fellow Jesuits, the Rev. Xavier Albo, said Espinal’s intent was for the church to be in dialogue with Marxism, and said Espinal had altered his crucifix to incorporate the Communists’ most potent symbol: the hammer and sickle. Espinal was one of the foremost proponents of Liberation Theology – a Marxist-leaning theology movement born in South America that was condemned by both Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II.
In an interview with the press on his way back to Rome after the trip, the Pope defended the “Communist cross” and praised Espinal:

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Feast of Corpus Christi (without the Corpus or the Christi)

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Is Pope Francis looking to promote a form of new cross that does NOT include Jesus Christ?  On numerous occasions, the Pope has used, received as a gift, and even kissed crosses whose design does not include Jesus, and which bear startling resemblance to occult symbolism. In this article, we review three of these important instances where the Pope was publicly seen with the “new” crosses.

A “Snake” Cross in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Similar to photo below, with brighter exposure, less contrast

During his visit to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for World Youth Day on July 27, 2013, Pope Francis was seen holding a most unusual cross during a meeting with cardinals and bishops.

The Pope was likewise seen kissing the unusual cross (with what seems like a serpent’s head) during the same meeting. The original photo can still be found in Getty Images.

Somehow the article manages to ignore the pectoral cross Francis wears,

which never has been one with Our Lord's Corpus on it.

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IMHO -- it would be an excellent sign things are improving

if the Pope (perhaps the next one?) would wear

a pectoral cross like the one Fr. Gabriele Amorth is holding here:

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Now THAT'S a serious crucifix!

When the devil sees that coming he knows you mean business.

Great for exorcisms -- hey, perhaps the Papacy needs one

(and a St. Benedict crucifix, too, would be a great start!)

Source page:

https://veritas-vincit-international.org/2017/07/05/third-secret-of-fatima-false-church-end-times/

Two of the images of that cross are quite different, and I have to wonder if one is photoshopped.

In the lower photo, the weird blue shape in the middle of the cross isn't at all the same as it looks in the image of the same cross in the upper smaller photo. The photo on the lower part of the page shows the blue shape as being a sort of circular shape, while the photo on the upper part of the page shows that blue shape as being a straight vertical shape.  Something seems amiss.

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IMHO -- it would be an excellent sign things are improving

if the Pope (perhaps the next one?) would wear

a pectoral cross like the one Fr. Gabriele Amorth is holding here:

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Now THAT'S a serious crucifix!

When the devil sees that coming he knows you mean business.

Great for exorcisms -- hey, perhaps the Papacy needs one

(and a St. Benedict crucifix, too, would be a great start!)

Source page:

https://veritas-vincit-international.org/2017/07/05/third-secret-of-fatima-false-church-end-times/

I agree, the crucifixes the last few popes have used are awful.

Could someone help me understand the great attachment people have to the "St Benedict Cross" also called the Happy Death Cross?

Prior to 1992, these crucifixes were unseen and unheard of, outside perhaps a Benedictine monastery.  I looked through wholesale religious catalogues going back to 1960 and nary a one.  In 1992 the 101 Foundation in New York started importing them from a Benedictine in Italy who was hand making them in wood and they sold for $110.00  U.S. for a 3-4 inch crucifix.
Well like anything else, some manufacturer saw them and figured he could make a buck so over the next 5 years or so they started appearing in every color, size and material.

Now this is the part I have a problem with.

The Jubilee medal of St. Benedict (first struck in the 1800's) is impressed into the cross.  On the medal St. Benedict is holding a crucifix . It was the power of the crucified Christ that he used to dispel demons.
Never before, traditionally, has anyone ever been added to a Crucifix.   Mary, who was immaculate and shared in the passion of Our Lord was never added so why a mere mortal, regardless of his now being a saint?  He had absolutely nothing to do with our redemption !  The Crucifix is THE SIGN of our redemption.
St Benedict Jubilee Medals have been attached to rosaries since their fist appearance but never incorporated into anything least of all a crucifix.

There is NOTHING that can make a crucifix more powerful, Christ doesn't need any help,so what's the big attraction?

I think St. Benedict would be mortified.