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What are the origins of Lent?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe 40-day Lenten season, when many Christians observe fasting, began in mid-February. A scholar explains how the practice may have emerged around the...
Vatican conference on ‘climate resilience’ is the latest in a long line of environment initiatives...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA march for climate action in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in June 2015. Pope Francis praised...
Why parts of Good Friday worship have been controversial
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPrayers and symbols have the power to bind people together, writes a religion scholar, and so it is...
What is incorruptibility? A scholar of Catholic worship explains
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 11 months agoPeople pray over the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster at the abbey of the Benedictines of Mary,...
Can chatbots write inspirational and wise sermons?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAI-created sermons have proved controversial for some religious leaders. Daniel Vogl/picture alliance via Getty ImagesWhen several hundred Lutherans in...
Holy Week starts off with lots of palms – but Palm Sunday's donkey is just as important to the story
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA man chooses a palm cross to buy on Palm Sunday near a church in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2022....
How medieval Catholic traditions of thanksgiving prayers and feasting shaped the Protestant...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Catholic hymn, "Te Deum" -- which says, “You, God, we praise” -- has been used for centuries in...
Calls for Pope Benedict's sainthood make canonizing popes seem like the norm – but it's a long and...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPeople pray in front of the tomb of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI inside the grottos of St....
'Smiling Pope' John Paul I takes the next step toward sainthood -- not all pontiffs earn this...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPope John Paul I greets the crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in August 1978....
Why having human remains land on the Moon poses difficult questions for members of several religions
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoTwo scholars who study death rituals explain that the corpse is considered spiritually polluting in...
