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The Explainer: The apocrypha, Christianity’s ‘hidden’ texts, may not be in the Bible - but they have shaped tradition for centuries - Sight Magazine CHRISTY COBB, a scholar of early Christianity, explains what the apocrypha, whether with upper or lower case, is...

The Explainer: The apocrypha, Christianity’s ‘hidden’ texts, may not be in the Bible – but they have shaped tradition for centuries
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3 weeks ago

The Explainer: Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, a period of fasting, reflection - and fish fries - Sight Magazine PETER SMITH, of Associated Press, looks at what Ash Wednesday is all about… AP This is the week of Ash Wednesday, a solemn day of fasting and reflection that signals the start of Lent, the most penite...

The Explainer: Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, a period of fasting, reflection – and fish fries. PETER SMITH, of Associated Press, looks at what Ash Wednesday is all about… @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Easter #AshWednesday #Lent #TheExplainer #fasting

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1 month ago

The Explainer: If Pope Leo joined Trump’s Board of Peace, it would compromise centuries of "positive neutrality" - Sight Magazine DARIUS VON GUTTNER SPORZYNSKI, professor of history at Australian Catholic University, explains the history behind papal peace efforts.

The Explainer: If Pope Leo joined Trump’s Board of Peace, it would compromise centuries of “positive neutrality”. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #PopeLeoXIV #BoardofPeace #DonaldTrump #papaldiplomacy #positiveneutrality #Vatican #CatholicChurch

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2 months ago

The Explainer: Everything you need to know about Christmas, and how it has evolved into a global holiday - Sight Magazine LUIS ANDRES HENAO reports on the origins of Christmas and the traditions that surround the celebration of the birth of Christ...

The Explainer: Everything you need to know about Christmas, and how it has evolved into a global holiday. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #Christmas #Jesus #birthofChrist #Gospels #SantaClaus #StNicholas #CharlesDickens #KFCinJapan

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4 months ago

The Explainer: Manolo Quezon reviews 'Quezon' the movie You asked for it, you got it: a film review. When is a biopic not a biopic and when is historical fiction something else entirely? Here’s a different take on the Bayaniverse’s genre-challenging…

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4 months ago

The Explainer: Why the joint prayer of Pope Leo and King Charles symbolises reconciliation - Sight Magazine KATE HOLTON and JOSHUA MCELWEE, of Reuters, look at why the King and Pope's joint prayer is significant and the background to it...

The Explainer: Why the joint prayer of Pope Leo and King Charles symbolises reconciliation. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #PopeLeoXIV #Vatican #CatholicChurch #KingCharlesIII #AnglicanCommunion #ChurchofEngland #KingHenryVIII #SistineChapel #prayer

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5 months ago

The Explainer: This is why the story of Abraham is coming up in the push for Middle East peace - Sight Magazine PETER SMITH, of Associated Press, looks at the role the Biblical figure Abraham is playing in current politics in the Middle East...

The Explainer: This is why the story of Abraham is coming up in the push for Middle East peace. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #Abraham #AbrahamAccords #MiddleEast #DonaldTrump #BruceFeiler #Bible #DonaldTrump #Islam #Christianity #Judaism

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5 months ago

The Explainer: The Rapture - Sight Magazine As predictions that the Rapture would occur this week have spread across TikTok, LUIS ANDRES HENAO takes a look at the theological concept...

The Explainer: The Rapture. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #TheRapture #theology #Bible #AmyFrykholm #HaroldCamping #SeventhdayAdventists #TheGreatDisappointment #JoshuaMhlakela #ScofieldReferenceBible #Jesus #SecondComing #EndTimes

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5 months ago

The Explainer: Social scientists have long found women tend to be more religious than men – but Gen Z may show a shift - Sight Magazine Quantitative scholar of American religion, RYAN BURGE, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at what the data shows...

The Explainer: Social scientists have long found women tend to be more religious than men – but Gen Z may show a shift. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #GenZ #religiousness #women #men #SurveyCenteronAmericanLife #GeneralSocialSurvey

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6 months ago

The Explainer: From public confession to private penance - how Catholic confession has evolved over centuries - Sight Magazine TIMOTHY GABRIELLI, of the University of Dayton, looks at how the sacrament of confession has changed in the Catholic Church...

The Explainer: From public confession to private penance – how Catholic confession has evolved over centuries. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #CatholicChurch #confession #sacramentofreconciliation #repentance #penance #forgiveness #confessional

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6 months ago

The Explainer: Sanctuary cities in the US were born in the 1980s as Central American refugees fled civil wars - Sight Magazine Historian of migration LAURA MADOKORO looks at how the concept of 'sanctuary cities' came to the US in the Eighties...

The Explainer: Sanctuary cities in the US were born in the 1980s as Central American refugees fled civil wars. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #sanctuarycities #sanctuarymovement #migrants #LatinAmerica #CentralAmerica #Eighties

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8 months ago

The Explainer: How the Catholic Church helped change the conversation about capital punishment in the United States - Sight Magazine AUSTIN SARAT looks at how Sister Helen Prejean and her book, and subsequent film, 'Dead Man Walking', helped change the conversation.

The Explainer: How the Catholic Church helped change the conversation about capital punishment in the United States. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #CatholicChurch #USCatholics #capitalpunishment #deathpenalty #SisterHelenPrejean #DeadManWalking

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9 months ago

The Explainer: What is Shavuot? - Sight Magazine PETER SMITH takes a look at the Jewish festival which started in the US this year just hours after an attack in Boulder, Colorado...

The Explainer: What is Shavuot? @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #Shauvot #Judaism #Jewishfestivals #Bible #Torah #Pentecost #Exodus #Moses

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9 months ago

The Explainer: Pope Leo XIV is the first member of the Order of St Augustine to be elected pope - but who are the Augustinians? - Sight Magazine JOANNE M PIERCE, a specialist in medieval Christianity, looks at the history of the Augustinians...

The Explainer: Pope Leo XIV is the first member of the Order of St Augustine to be elected pope – but who are the Augustinians? @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #Augustinians #PopeLeoXVI #StAugustine #CatholicChurch #religiousorders

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10 months ago

The Explainer: This conclave to choose a new pope was short - but not the shortest ever - Sight Magazine COLLEEN BARRY, of Associated Press, takes a look at how long it has taken to elect popes in recent decades...

The Explainer: This conclave to choose a new pope was short – but not the shortest ever. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #PopeLeoXIV #Vatican #CatholicChurch #papalconclaves #papalelections #CollegeofCardinals #cardinals

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10 months ago

The Explainer: What happens in a papal conclave? - Sight Magazine US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE says the voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt.

The Explainer: What happens in a papal conclave? @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #CatholicChurch #conclave #papalconclave #cardinals #CollegeofCardinals #Vatican

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11 months ago

The Explainer: As ‘right to die’ gains more acceptance, a scholar of Catholicism explains the position of the Catholic Church - Sight Magazine MATHEW SCHMALZ, in an article first published on The Conversation, says the Catholic Church's position on the issue is a "nuanced one"...

The Explainer: As ‘right to die’ gains more acceptance, a scholar of Catholicism explains the position of the Catholic Church. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #righttodie #euthanasia #assistedsuicide #CatholicChurch #PopeFrancis

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1 year ago

The Explainer: What happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church when a pope becomes sick or incapacitated? - Sight Magazine NICOLE WINFIELD looks at how papal power is exercised in the Holy See, how it is transferred and under what circumstances...

The Explainer: What happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church when a pope becomes sick or incapacitated?
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1 year ago

The Explainer: When a bishop called on Trump to "have mercy", she was following the old Christian tradition of parrhesia - Sight Magazine Professor of Christian history and theology MORWENNA LUDLOW looks at the concept of 'parrhesia' and the role it's played in church history...

The Explainer: When a bishop called on Trump to “have mercy”, she was following the old Christian tradition of parrhesia. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #parrhesia #speakingtruthtopower #NewTestament #Bible #StAmbrose #StJohnChrysostom #MariannBudde

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1 year ago

The Explainer: Rest, reorientation and hope – the pillars of 2025’s Catholic Jubilee year - Sight Magazine TIMOTHY GABRIELLI looks at the Biblical origins of the Jubilee year and what the declaration means in Catholic tradition...

The Explainer: Rest, reorientation and hope – the pillars of 2025’s Catholic Jubilee year. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #Jubilee2025 #CatholicChurch #Vatican #Jubileeyear #Bible #OldTestament #Jesus #PopeFrancis

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1 year ago

The Explainer: MLK’s "beloved community" has inspired social justice work for decades - what did he mean? - Sight Magazine Baptist minister JASON OLIVER EVANS looks at what Martin Luther King, Jr, meant when he urged people to build the “beloved community"...

The Explainer: MLK’s “beloved community” has inspired social justice work for decades − what did he mean?@sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #MartinLutherKingJr #MLK #belovedcommunity #RufusBurrowJr #LewisVBaldwin #JosiahRoyce #HowardThurman

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1 year ago

The Explainer: Catholic cardinals play a key role in secular politics as well as the Catholic Church - and the importance of Pope Francis’ choice to head the church in DC - Sight Magazine JOANNE M PIERCE looks at the important role cardinals have played over the centuries in church administration and secular politics...

The Explainer: Catholic cardinals play a key role in secular politics as well as the Catholic Church – and the importance of Pope Francis’ choice to head the church in DC. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #CatholicChurch #CardinalRobertMcElroy #cardinals

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1 year ago

The Explainer: What is a Biblically accurate angel? And do you need one to top your Christmas tree? - Sight Magazine Instead of a star or some stylised humanoid angel to top their Christmas tree, why not create a Biblically accurate angel?

The Explainer: What is a Biblically accurate angel? And do you need one to top your Christmas tree? @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #Bible #RevKiraAustinYoung #angels #Biblicallyaccurateangels #Christmasangels

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1 year ago

The Explainer: Five Christmas story elements that don’t appear in the Bible, from the little donkey to the inn keeper - Sight Magazine CHRIS GREENOUGH says some of best-known parts of the Christmas story aren’t in the Bible at all...

The Explainer: Five Christmas story elements that don’t appear in the Bible, from the little donkey to the inn keeper. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #Christmas #Bible #Gospels #Jesus #birthofJesus #Christ

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1 year ago

The Explainer: The Crown of Thorns returns to Notre Dame after the ‘modern miracle’ of its rescue from the fire - Sight Magazine The ceremony for reinstalling the relic takes inspiration from King Louis IX's famous parade in which he carried the crown into Paris in 1239

The Explainer: The Crown of Thorns returns to Notre Dame after the ‘modern miracle’ of its rescue from the fire. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #NotreDame #NotreDamefire #NotreDamereopening #Paris #CrownofThorns #KingLouisIX #relics #CatholicChurch

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1 year ago

The Explainer: Notre Dame’s bells have been blessed as the cathedral reopens - a tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages - Sight Magazine MADELEINE BURGESS looks at the tradition of blessing church bells, known to some as the "baptism of bells"...

The Explainer: Notre-Dame’s bells have been blessed as the cathedral reopens – a tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #Paris #NotreDameCathedral #churchbells #blessingofthebells #baptismofbells #BangorCathedral

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1 year ago

The Explainer: Was Jesus Palestinian? - Sight Magazine In an article first published on The Conversation, PHILIP C ALMOND, of The University of Queensland, looks at the evidence...

The Explainer: Was Jesus Palestinian? @sightmagazine.bsky.social #TheExplainer #Jesus #Palestinian #Jewish #Palestine #Bethlehem #WestBank #Bible #Israel

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