Honestly it would have made more sense to have the hammer and sickle above the cross, where the INRI insciption normally is.
The gift to the Pope is a replica of a crucifix created in the 1970s by Luis Espinal Camps, a Jesuit missionary who lived in Bolivia from 1968 until death. Camps carved the communist crucifix in the 1970s as a symbol of compatibility of Catholicism with Marxism. Camps was assassinated in 1980 as part of a far-right anticommunism military coup by Luis García Meza, who aspired to be similar to Pinochet.
In 2015, Pope Francis said a prayer for Father Luis Epinal Camps at the location where his body was found. Evo Morales presented the Pope with the replica crucifix. Pope Francis reacted with confusion. Many Catholics around the world considered the gift to be blasphemous. The Pope later interpreted the crucifix to be "protest art".
I still don't understand why Espinal made it as if Jesus was being crucified on the hammer itself.
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