Our Lady Of The Boomerang
By SHAUN KENNEY At the University of Virginia, St. Thomas Aquinas Parish stands at the center of the Catholic community. For many years, there was a statue of Aquinas made entirely out of chrome bumpers, in which the Angelic Doctor was portrayed in all of his massive perched glory in front of the parish facing Alderman Road. Thus the “Bumper Buddha” graced the epicenter of Catholicism at the university until very recently, when Aquinas was unceremoniously removed and given a more appropriate perch — in a Charlottesville art park on top of a building, gazing over other modern art pieces in silent and highly reflective chromium repose. For those of you not familiar with Pachamama, it is some sort of…Continue Reading