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from The Guardian (UK)
500 years after the expulsion of Spain’s Jews, medieval Bible comes home
On a summer’s day in 1476 a scribe called Moses Ibn Zabarah put the finishing touches to an enormous and magnificently illustrated Hebrew Bible commissioned by the son of a wealthy Jewish family from Galicia, north-western Spain. The Bible, whose pages teem with dragons, monkeys, peacocks, intricate geometric patterns and a slightly alarmed Jonah entering the whale’s mouth head first, took 10 months to complete and would have demanded careful study. Sixteen years later Spain’s Jews – who had already endured a century of persecution that led many to convert to Catholicism – were ordered to leave the country by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. The expulsion cast the family and their precious Bible into exile. From Spain, the book was taken to Portugal, North Africa, Gibraltar and Scotland before finally ending up in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Today, after 527 peripatetic years, the book is finally coming home – albeit temporarily. The Kennicott Bible, named after Benjamin Kennicott, the scholar and librarian on whose advice the work was bought by Oxford University, has been loaned to the regional government of Galicia and will be on show in Santiago de Compostela from Friday until next April.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Sue Lani Madsen: People become homeless when they ‘run out of relationships,’ not resources
Homeless has more than one definition, more than one driver, more than one solution. But overarching all is a loss of relationship between self and community, self and family, and self and God.
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Sue Lani Madsen: People become homeless when they ‘run out of relationships,’ not resources
Homeless has more than one definition, more than one driver, more than one solution. But overarching all is a loss of relationship between self and community, self and family, and self and God.
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from The Washington Examiner
News & Media Website in Washington, DC
Traditional Catholic parishes grow even as US Catholicism declines
Traditional Catholic parishes run by one society of priests are growing in the United States, defying the trend of decline in the broader American church over previous decades. Over the past year, parishes run by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a society of priests dedicated to celebrating the traditional Latin form of the Catholic liturgy, have reported large increases in Sunday Mass attendance. The traditional liturgy that draws attendees is the form of the Mass celebrated before the reforms instituted at the Second Vatican Council, a meeting of the church’s bishops in the 1960s.
Traditional Catholic parishes grow even as US Catholicism declines
Traditional Catholic parishes run by one society of priests are growing in the United States, defying the trend of decline in the broader American church over previous decades. Over the past year, parishes run by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a society of priests dedicated to celebrating the traditional Latin form of the Catholic liturgy, have reported large increases in Sunday Mass attendance. The traditional liturgy that draws attendees is the form of the Mass celebrated before the reforms instituted at the Second Vatican Council, a meeting of the church’s bishops in the 1960s.
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