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The inspiration for the Crossroads logo (created by Studio Grafico Norfini, Florence, Italy) is "Broadway Boogie Woogie" by Piet Mondrian, 1942-43, oil on canvas, MoMA New York

Themes
Crossroads theme: human affairs

Man has been given to understand

that he lives only by grace of those in power.

Let him therefore busy himself sipping coffee, catching butterflies.

Who cares for the Republic will have his right hand cut off.

— Czelaw Milosz Crossroads theme: meetings at the crossroads

When I see the heavens,

the work of Your hands,

the moon and the stars which You arranged,

what is man that You should keep him in mind,

mortal man that You care for him?

Yet You have made him little less that a god,

with glory and honour You crowned him,

gave him power over the works of Your hand,

put all things under his feet.

—Psalm 8 Crossroads theme: Memory and identity

Wherefore those many lights

That boundless atmosphere,

And infinite calm sky?

And what the meaning of this vast solitude?

And what am I?

—Giacomo Leopardi Crossroads theme: Beauty will save the world

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious.

It is the fundamental emotion which stands

At the cradle of true art and true science.

—Albert Einstein
Friday
May072010

DEMPSEY, Hugh 

Hugh DempseyHugh M. Dempsey, is a member of the Order of Malta in Obedience, the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and the Royal Order of St. Michael of the Wing. He serves as Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of The Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Dempsey is also a founder of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California and the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County in Pennsylvania. He currently serves as Vice President of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation.