This is a statue of a glorious warrior of the Cold War, Jozef Cardinal Slipyj (m. 1984). Perched on the facade of the Ukrainian Catholic parish near to the Angelicum, he spies the passing faithful with his arm raised in might.
The Lord Reverend Cardinal would sometimes quote this line from Pope Benedict XIV: "The Church of Christ is neither Latin, nor Greek, nor Slav, but CATHOLIC. Members of all nations are EQUAL in the eyes of the Apostolic See...Catholics can have differences through venerable traditions in the Liturgy, language, laws and customs." (De Martinis, Juris Pontificii, Vol. III, Pars I, Art. 4, p. 621).
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