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The article focuses on focus of meditation and appears utterly exhausted in this moment of dismal uncertainty and instant of humiliation, of futility and apparent abandonment and Pietà toward the front of the massive basilica, a sense of displacement takes hold. It mentions Gospel was followed to move from the abject and dispossessed alienation of a first-century execution to the excesses of a Renaissance court. It also mentions gold and silk and remnants of royal culture and behavior.

The article presents information on Asia's second replica of Michaelangelo's Pieta, a sculpture depicting the body of Jesus Christ in the lap of his mother Mary after crucifixion, that was unveiled at the Shrine Basilica of the Lady of Dolours Church, in Kerala, India.

The article focuses on the second replica of Michaelangelo's "Pieta," in Asia, which represents the body of Jesus Christ in the lap of his mother Mary after crucifixion, that was consecrated and unveiled at the Shrine Basilica of the Lady of Dolours in Kerala, India.

The article reports on the discovery of an oil painting on wood depicting the Virgin Mary holding the body of Jesus after the crucifixion, done by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo.

NOT long ago, I wrote that New York's last World's Fair, in 1964-65, paled in comparison with the 1939 version, but at least ''did expose Michelangelo's 'Pieta' to millions and popularized the Belgian waffle.'' In his new book, ''The End of the Innocence: The 1964-65 New York World's Fair'' (Syracuse University Press, $29.95), Lawrence R. Samuel rejects similar swipes as ''dismissive thinking.'' Instead, he delivers an overdue and well-deserved encomium to a largely denigrated chapter in the city's history. ''There were,'' writes Mr. Samuel, the author of several books of social history, ''really two fairs in Queens in 1964 and 1965, or at least two constructions of its past. The first,'' among the last gasps of the master builder Robert Moses, ''is steeped in its official memory, the business enterprise that lost money, overcharged exhibitors, offended the intellectual and aesthetic elite. The other can be found in its popular memory -- the experience that most visitors found thoroughly enjoyable, if not enthralling, that sparked imaginations and reshaped people's vision of the world.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the denial made by the Vatican regarding the plans of Pope Paul VI to sell the Pieta sculpture and give the proceeds to the poor.