![Pope Benedict's signet ring will be destroyed using special silver papal hammer to ensure documents it was used to sign will not be forged – New York Daily News Pope Benedict's signet ring will be destroyed using special silver papal hammer to ensure documents it was used to sign will not be forged – New York Daily News](https://www.nydailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2013/02/27/GKM556NBNEZXA6MN5XYX3KKGVI.jpg?w=620)
Pope Benedict's signet ring will be destroyed using special silver papal hammer to ensure documents it was used to sign will not be forged – New York Daily News
![Mariana Atencio on X: "The Pope's face when Evo Morales gives him Christ on the cross with the communist hammer and sickle... http://t.co/DHRBBoCS3u" / X Mariana Atencio on X: "The Pope's face when Evo Morales gives him Christ on the cross with the communist hammer and sickle... http://t.co/DHRBBoCS3u" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJeKRgbVAAE-ouo.jpg)
Mariana Atencio on X: "The Pope's face when Evo Morales gives him Christ on the cross with the communist hammer and sickle... http://t.co/DHRBBoCS3u" / X
![ADDS MORE INFORMATION ON CRUCIFIX - Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with a crucifix carved into a wooden hammer and sickle, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. The ADDS MORE INFORMATION ON CRUCIFIX - Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with a crucifix carved into a wooden hammer and sickle, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. The](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2P2P2P9/adds-more-information-on-crucifix-bolivian-president-evo-morales-presents-pope-francis-with-a-crucifix-carved-into-a-wooden-hammer-and-sickle-in-la-paz-bolivia-wednesday-july-8-2015-the-crucifix-is-a-replica-originally-designed-by-jesuit-activist-luis-espinal-who-was-assassinated-in-1980-by-suspected-paramilitaries-during-the-months-that-preceded-a-military-coup-even-though-the-vatican-was-not-expecting-the-unusual-gift-it-is-seeking-to-explain-the-communist-crucifix-given-to-francis-saying-its-a-symbol-of-dialogue-and-not-an-offensive-melding-of-faith-and-ideology-losservat-2P2P2P9.jpg)
ADDS MORE INFORMATION ON CRUCIFIX - Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with a crucifix carved into a wooden hammer and sickle, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. The
![Pope Francis comments on hammer-and-sickle crucifix: "Protest art" from Bolivia wasn't offensive, he says. Pope Francis comments on hammer-and-sickle crucifix: "Protest art" from Bolivia wasn't offensive, he says.](https://compote.slate.com/images/07f9a4c1-3ac1-4cfe-bea7-e207b8b2c3bc.png)
Pope Francis comments on hammer-and-sickle crucifix: "Protest art" from Bolivia wasn't offensive, he says.
![That look you get when you give the pope a crucifix shaped like a hammer and sickle - The Washington Post That look you get when you give the pope a crucifix shaped like a hammer and sickle - The Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_908w/2010-2019/Wires/Images/2015-07-09/Reuters/2015-07-09T230051Z_01_ASB531_RTRIDSP_3_POPE-LATAM-BOLIVIA.jpg)