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Carlo Acutis: what the first ‘millennial saint’ says about the Catholic church’s future
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 1 month agoThe London-born Italian teenager Carlo Acutis is likely to become the first “millennial saint” after two miracles attributed to him were recognised by Pope Francis. Spending most of his life ...
Vampire Weekend Reinvents Its Sound (Again) With ‘Only God Was Above Us’: Album Review
Variety via Yahoo News UK· 3 months agoA major problem with early success is getting past it — case in point, the cheerful bop of Vampire...
Catholic vs. Christian: Overlap and Differences in the Religions
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAll squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares; the same goes for the Catholic vs. Christian distinction. All Catholics are Christian, but not all Christians consider themselves Catholic.
The ‘real’ St. Valentine was no patron of love
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 4 months agoValentine’s Day originated as a feast to celebrate the decapitation of a third-century Christian martyr, or perhaps two. It took a gruesome path to...
Latin America's colonial period was far less Catholic than it might seem − despite the Inquisition's...
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 5 months agoConversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin...
‘Household Saints,’ Once Lost, Has Been Found and Restored in All Its ’90s Glory
Indiewire via Yahoo News UK· 6 months agoA few years ago, filmmaker Nancy Savoca came to believe that one of her movies had been lost...
Give into the magic that makes Christmas and Christianity so wonderful
The Telegraph via Yahoo News UK· 6 months agoThis year marked the 50th anniversary of Fortean Times, a journal of paranormal phenomena loved by...
OPINION: Santa hasn't 'diminished' for the nice list
Tahlequah Daily Press, Okla. via Yahoo News UK· 6 months agoDec. 23—A few years ago, a former columnist of ours wrote about how belief in Santa makes him real, and there's something to that philosophy. Pretending to believe has its advantages, too — ...
Catholic shrine in Morton Grove gains holy relics of Saints Luke and Juan Diego: ‘From the hand that...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News UK· 6 months agoThis Christmas, a Morton Grove church is celebrating the arrival of two Catholic holy relics,...
‘I would never have done MasterChef – or won it – without the right HRT prescription’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoBorn in Welwyn Garden City in 1972, Lisa Snowdon was spotted by Premier Model Management at the age...
