Why yes it would! (Note, in particular, the "pod" off to the left, which we always assumed was some Catholic equivalent of the link tower Tron used to communicate with his User. You'd go in there to get your disk reprogrammed with the subroutine needed to crash the MCP.)

>I'd never seen the statue before (I've always passed it
>on Newton St.), but I've always called it "The Beehive"...

Heh, we used to call it "the JesusDome", even though it isn't really a dome.

There are a number of really rather wacky postwar Catholic churches in that area. There's another one over in Burlington, I think, that looks kind of like a bunker or the single-story lobby porch section of a late-'50s Holiday Inn, except that on the roof, instead of a steeple, there's this fantastical metal... sculpture... thing, like some kind of sci-fi intergalactic communications antenna. It's like the architect was trying to put a transistor-radio-era spin on the whole "communications channel to God" metaphor.

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