Black smoke, no pope: What to look for during the conclave
By Anna Levy
The world's eyes are on the Vatican at the moment, with a new pope soon to be decided through the secretive process of the conclave. Here's how we will know when one is chosen.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-27/new-pope-elected-white-smoke-at-the-vatican/105205410
Worshippers gather for Easter mass inside the ruins of St George Melkite Catholic church, damaged by Israeli airstrikes, in Dardghaya. #Lebanon
Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP
As Jones' reminder that his own book White Too Long has been censored by the Trump regime calls us to see, there's a huge push to obliterate the real history of the US when it's deeply unflattering — to white supremacists and white Christian nationalists. If you want to delve into that real history vis-a-vis the sordid story of lynching, a valuable resource is the book Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.
(continued from /1) "I tell the story of white Christians in Atlanta streaming straight from church services to board special trains to take them to participate in the man hunt and lynching of Sam Hose (born Samuel Thomas Wilkes) in nearby Newnan, which took place on April 23, 1899, two years to the day after the lynching of Joseph McCoy."
"[The] proximity of white churchgoing and lynching was common throughout the U.S. In my book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, (which has now been banned by the government at the US Naval Academy)," (continued in /2)
~ Robert P. Jones
#churches #WhiteSupremacy #racism #lynching
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/between-history-and-hope-remarks
Black Madonna Chapel at Kappelberg in Roosendaal, Netherlands
In 1421, a drowning man prayed for his life and promised to build a chapel where he would wash ashore.#chapel #churches #religion #section-Atlas
Black Madonna Chapel at Kappelberg
New Testament Reading: #Revelation 1:4-8
Herzgruft 'Heart Crypt' in Vienna, Austria
The hearts of 54 Habsburg royals received special burials here separate from their bodies.#churches #crypts #burialplaces #hearts #section-Atlas
Herzgruft 'Heart Crypt'
Red Monastery in Sohag, Egypt
An early Christian basilica modeled after an Egyptian temple showcases some the best-preserved frescos from late antiquity.#art #basilicas #churches #religion #monasteries #section-Atlas
Red Monastery
Justin Bieber’s longtime friend believes singer is in cult https://www.inbella.com/1012627/justin-biebers-longtime-friend-believes-singer-is-in-cult/ #CelebrityFeuds #CelebrityFriendships #CelebrityNews #churches #cults #EntertainmentNews #JustinBieber #music #pastors #Religion
Catholic leaders in Canberra remember Pope Francis as a 'disrupter'
By Jade Toomey and Coquohalla Connor
Pope Francis is remembered as "charitable, compassionate and a great leader" by those attending an angelus in Canberra.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-22/canberra-remembers-the-great-leader-pope-francis/105202490
While I was reading something else, where are the #churches in the #US United States who fight against this inhuman behavior of the government?
#Trump
#catholic
#protestant
Our Lady, Star of the Sea & St. Winifride (RC) church, Amlwch, Anglesey. The only other example I've seen is in Lima, Peru.
It is mostly concrete, including the ribs, which have design and material flaws, long leading to a leaking roof, though restored and reopened in 2011. In 2021, it was closed again due to continued structural problems.
Once thought to hold magical powers, the hot cross bun has a pagan history
By Susan Oong
Hot cross buns have long heralded the start of Easter in the western world, with the marked cross on top a symbol of Christian faith — but they actually started as part of pagan rituals.
