Signs invited Jews to visit the Temple Mount. Why Israel’s chief rabbi forbade them.
(RNS) — Jewish nationalists bent on affirming the Jewish connection to the Mount have increasingly visited the site.
Vatican II after 60 years
(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants.
What do the lonely do at Christmas?
(RNS) — Now, more than ever, people are becoming comfortable sharing their grief and longing during the holidays.
Why early Christians wouldn’t have found the Christmas story’s virgin birth so surprising
(The Conversation) — The ancient Mediterranean was full of tales of legendary men born of gods.
India’s visa temples attract devotees aspiring to go abroad
CHENNAI, India (AP) — This 'visa temple' has surged in popularity among U.S. visa seekers over the past decade; they can be found in almost any Indian city with a U.S. consulate.
At 50, ‘Immaculate Reception’ still lifts a region’s spirits
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Immaculate Reception crystallized the rise of the Steelers — even as their namesake industry was on the decline, as was the Pittsburgh of compact immigrant neighborhoods with multiple ethnic Catholic parishes.
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