We are all familiar with the traditional greeting Le’shana tova tikatevu (“May you be inscribed for a good year”). That particular wording dates back to the Talmudic period in Babylonia, and the early ...
February 11, 2009 at 3:49 p.m. ET ROME — Until a few decades ago, practically everybody attending a Catholic baptism, first Communion or funeral would walk out of the ceremony with a holy card in ...
To Julie Ann Brown, they are “visual scriptures, visual faith.” Brown collects holy cards, simple expressions of faith that have been popular in the Roman Catholic Church for hundreds of years. The ...