Editing Holy card (section)

=== Recent history ===
The 1940 ''[[Head of Christ]]'' painting has been printed more than 500 million times, including pocket-sized cards for carrying in a [[wallet]].<ref name="Lippy1994">{{cite book |last=Lippy |first=Charles H. |url=https://archive.org/details/beingreligiousam0000lipp |title=Being Religious, American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States |date=1 January 1994 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780313278952 |page=[https://archive.org/details/beingreligiousam0000lipp/page/185 185] |quote=Of these one stands out as having deeply impressed itself of the American religious consciousness: the "Head of Christ" by artist Warner Sallman (1892-1968). Originally sketched in charcoal as a cover illustration for the ''Covenant Companion'', the magazine of the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America denomination, and based on an image of Jesus in a painting by the French artist Leon Augustin Lhermitte, Sallman's "Head of Christ" was painted in 1940. In half a century, it had been produced more than five hundred million times in formats ranging from large-scale copies for use in churches to wallet-sized ones that individuals could carry with them at all times. |access-date=30 April 2014 |url-access=registration}}</ref> In the [[World War II]] era, "millions of cards featuring the Head of Christ were distributed through the USO by the [[Salvation Army]] and the [[YMCA]] to members of the American armed forces stationed overseas".<ref name="Moore2001">{{cite book |last=Moore |first=Stephen D. |url=https://archive.org/details/godsbeautyparlor0000moor/page/248 |title=God's Beauty Parlor |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=2001 |isbn=9780804743327 |page=[https://archive.org/details/godsbeautyparlor0000moor/page/248 248]}}</ref>

During the [[Cold War]], both Catholics and Protestants helped to popularize these cards, presenting "a united front against the menace of godless Communism".<ref name="Prothero2003">{{cite book |last=Prothero |first=Stephen |title=American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon |date=15 December 2003 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=9780374178901 |page=117 |quote=During the postwar revival of the 1940s and 1950s, as Protestants and Catholics downplayed denominational differences in order to present a united front against the menace of godless Communism, Sallman's Jesus became far and away the most common image of Jesus in American homes, churches, and workplaces. Thanks to Sallman (and the savvy marketing of his distributors), Jesus became instantly recognizable by Americans of all races and religions.}}</ref>