Pope Francis started the countdown on Thursday to the 2025 Holy Year, or Jubilee, which is one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important events and is expected to draw tens of millions of pilgrims to Rome. But what exactly is a Holy Year? (Reuters/Yahoo! News)
Read MoreThe 17-point drop in the percentage of U.S. adults who say religion is an important part of their daily life — from 66% in 2015 to 49% today — ranks among the largest Gallup has recorded in any country over any 10-year period since 2007. (Vigers & Ray, Gallup)
Read More“Words used to disparage and degrade certain groups of people – racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic or ableist terms, which we collectively called -IST words – were rated as the most offensive and the most taboo forms of expression.” (Buontempo, The New York Post)
Read MoreThe film, which stars FKA twigs and Noah Jupe alongside Cage, follows Jesus as a young boy being tempted by Satan to rebel against his father, Joseph (Cage). The film’s source material is established with an opening title card. “Based on the Infancy Gospel of Thomas,” it reads. But Nathan concedes he couldn’t rely solely on the text and had to fill in narrative gaps, as with a storyline involving Satan. (Fauria, AP News)
Read MoreOver a decade since it went off the air, “The Office” has become the lingua franca of the social internet. Michael Scott and his rubber-faced expressions have provided an entire emotional vocabulary for tweets and replies. (Poniewozik, The New York Times)
Read MoreA top Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ally rallied anti-vaccine activists over the weekend with an exhortation to stay strong in the face of attacks by the government, media and mainstream medical figures. (Weber, The Washington Post)
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