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Hello, all. I must thank you all for your patience during the long lag since my last post, but they were months well spent on my move to Chicago, settling into a rich new community, plus a lot of work on my Norse mythology album project which is now, at last, nearly complete. In addition, my essay-writing time usually directed toward ExUrbe went, over the last few months, toward a new essay now live on Tor.com, which is very like my earlier double review of the Borgia TV series, but takes as…

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Today, Pope Francis is known for his relative simplicity. He doesn’t seem to particularly like the more traditional, ornate papal regalia and signs of power. [See also: QUIZ: Can You Identify These Liturgical Objects?] [See also: The Lost 1200-Year-Old Wonder: A Tour of the Old St. Peter’s Basilica] In particular, notice that he doesn’t even wear the traditional red shoes (the color red symbolized the blood of martyrs). To understand how unique this is for the papacy historically,

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Researchers have discovered new documentation that substantiates reports that Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome sheltered Jews during World War II. Researchers from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust research institute and Rome’s Jewish community released the findings at an academic conference Thursday held at the Museum of the Shoah, which is part of Rome’s main synagogue. The documentation provides names of at least 3,200 Jews whose identities have…