The photo was taken in the private chapel of the pope's 10-floor apartment in Gemelli, according to the Holy See, the Vatican's press office.
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Phoebe Natanson,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2025
The Arcade Fire’s performance inside the Saloon on the Luck Ranch was a hot ticket and a line of hopefuls stretched from the doors all the way back to Nelson’s little white chapel at the festival gates.
Travelers can also see shrines and temples, enjoy miles of hiking trails, and ride an aerial tramway.
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Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Mar. 2025
People have created a makeshift shrine for Pope Francis at a statue of John Paul II in front of the Gemelli Hospital in Rome.
Candles, flowers and balloons have been left at the makeshift shrine.
Critics pointed to his role in the dissolution of the monasteries, an initiative of the English Reformation that saw most of the kingdom’s abbeys and priories shut down, their art and relics destroyed and their wealth diverted to fill the king’s coffers.
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Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
Today, the ancient scriptorium is home to the abbey’s museum and open to visitors along with the monastery’s Renaissance-style basilica and main cloister.
Director Kim Hyung-jun, who previously directed the political comedy My Fellow Citizens, opens the drama with an engagingly moody scene set in an empty Buddhist temple.
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Joan MacDonald,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
Traditionally they are found in temples, but some are hung at home.
In Argentina, whose population is roughly 63 percent Catholic, people celebrated Bergoglio’s ascendancy to the papacy with jubilation in the streets; thousands headed to the country’s cathedrals waving Argentine flags.
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Federico Perelmuter,
The Dial,
13 Mar. 2025
The Ones swear loyalty to the queen of Good (Camille Cottin), who’s headquartered in a space cathedral linked to the area via an undersea portal.
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