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Sunday’s Readings: The End
2 Advent, Year B, Dec. 10 Isa. 40:1-11 • Ps. 85:1-2, 8-13 2 Pet. 3:8-15a • Mark 1:1-8 Star of Bethlehem | Lawrence Lew, O.P./Flickr In the current climate in which so-called alternative facts obscure the…
Archives: Consecration of St. George’s, Jerusalem (1898)
After a bloody pogrom in Damascus in 1840, the British foreign minister, Lord Palmerston, gained the Ottoman sultan’s support for a plan to encourage Jews from across Europe and Asia…