Our Naples-based psychiatrist suggests replacing wishing-well prayers with something slightly more tangible — and edible.
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A patient has an extra-conjugal/religious question for our Naples-based psychiatrist.
A case of mistaken identity for our Naples-based psychiatrist, in the wake of Silvio Berlusconi’s passing.
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Small Wheels Keep On Turning
Pious men keep on praying.
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Burning Faith
The villages and landscapes, the colors and fauna, old people and young — in my experience, few countries can rival Nepal as a photographic subject. Here is one flickering moment of prayer passing at a Buddhist temple in Kathmandu. See more slides from My Grand-Père’s World here.
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Quick Prayer — Video Quote Of The Day
I’ve always thought that the best aspect of religion was art — be it music, architecture or painting. Enough to inspire stubborn unbelievers like me.
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Song Du Jour #27, Goats
Our Song du Jour is these goats giving it all they’ve got to Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer.”
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Nirvana Starts Young
Nepalese prayer wheels come in all shapes and sizes. This one wouldn’t quite fit in my luggage, so I brought a smaller one back home.
Forty years after government killings here sparked the militant anti-Apartheid movement, the ailing grandfather of modern South Africa is a reminder not to return to the past.
HAARETZ, JERUSALEM POST (Israel) Worldcrunch JERUSALEM – Police on Friday arrested five ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who tried to disrupt prayers by female Jewish activists at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem District Court recently ruled women were allowed to wear prayer shawls during their monthly service, reports Haaretz. The Women of the Wall activists […]
LE MONDE, LE PARISIEN (France) Worldcrunch PARIS – On August 15, a controversial “Prayer for France” will be read out at French Catholic churches, reviving a centuries old tradition as the country celebrates the Feast of the Assumption — the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven. The wording of the prayer, which […]