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Why Is Easter Called “Easter”?
The Spanish word for Easter is Pascua. In Italian, it’s Pasqua. French speakers have Pâques. All of these words derive from ...
The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...
‘SNL’ Trump Easter cold open swings at tariffs, jokes “the stock market did a Jesus”
In an Easter-themed cold open, Saturday Night Live mocks President Trump's recent tariff policies by comparing them to Jesus' ...
‘SNL’ swings at Trump’s tariffs, jokes “the stock market did a Jesus”
In an Easter-themed cold open, Saturday Night Live mocks President Trump's recent tariff policies by comparing them to Jesus' ...
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Convalescing Pope Francis opens Holy Week with in-person greeting in St. Peter's Square
A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Good ...
The Christian Century3d
Jesus the fallible
Jesus may have been an excellent carpenter. Or maybe he wasn’t. It’s possible that he made perfectly level tables but wobbly chairs. Or, if he was a stone mason, which the Greek word translated as ...
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The Egyptian Coptic kitsch that inspired a work of photographic devotion
When Xenia Nikolskaya first went to Egypt in 2006, she thought she knew what she was looking for. Born and raised in the ...
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Could This Ancient Greek Fresco Be the Inspiration for Virgin Mary Depictions?
A 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in ...
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Looking at the Masters: Madonna and child in a garden
Images of Mary and Christ are plentiful, as are images of them sitting in a rose garden. Since most of the population from ...