Doc Talk: Pilgrims of several sorts, Hindu nationalism, life in Lodz then and now
Doc Talk: Pilgrims of several sorts, Hindu nationalism, life in Lodz then and now By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated March 17, 2021, 3:39 p.m. Email to a Friend As recent history has shown, people pick the oddest idols to worship. One day while touring Vatican City in 1999, filmmaker Annie Berman spotted lollipops with the image of Pope John Paul II on them being sold at a kiosk. She learned that these and numerous other likenesses of the Holy See on T-shirts, mugs, snow globes and ashtrays were also on sale, duly licensed by the Vatican which took a share of the proceeds. This put h...