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Now that Pope Francis has died, what happens next?
Here's a look at the well-choreographed transition process and what experts including the Rev. Robin Ryan of the Catholic ...
The rites and rituals following the death of a pope and his funeral explained
The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his successor begins. They involve the certification of death and public ...
How accurate is Conclave? Five things the film taught us about the process after the Pope’s death
When the film Conclave was released in November last year, it felt spookily well-timed. The film, directed by Edward Berger, ...
Here are the rites and rituals following a pope's death: Funeral, burial and more
A pope's death sets in motion a series of rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his successor begins. Here's ...
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Was the Civil War Inevitable?
Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...
Museum Curators Discovered a 19th-Century Book Bound With the Skin of a Notorious Killer
Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...
The 30 best nonfiction books of the last 30 years
To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...
The 30 best fiction books of the last 30 years
To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...
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'Prose to the People' chronicles the legacy of Black bookstores across the U.S.
The bright scrapbook-style book includes the stories behind individual stores with a foreord by the late Nikki Giovanni ...