Essay: At the Olympics, athletes show guts, glory – and a lot of ink, including tattoos that profess their faith
In an article first published on The Conversation, GUSTAVO MORELLO looks at how athletes express their faith through tattoos…
Vatican bans tattoos and body piercings for St Peter’s Basilica workers
Vatican City Reuters The Vatican has banned workers at St Peter’s Basilica from having visible tattoos or body piercings to maintain “decorum”. The new regulation, published at the weekend, applies to the roughly 170 lay employees of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the department in charge of the basilica. Pope Francis leads a prayer service […]
Essay: Tattooing has held a long tradition in Christianity – dating back to Jesus’ crucifixion
GUSTAVO MORELLO, a Catholic priest and sociologist of religion, looks at the history of tattooing in Christianity in an article first published on The Conversation…
Tattoo artists in uproar over EU ink bans
Brussels, Belgium Reuters Tattoo parlours across the European Union were in crisis on Tuesday as a new rule came into force which effectively bans many of their most popular inks and which one artist described as like taking “taking the flour from a bakery”. Tattoo artists say alternatives to the inks, some of which have […]
StrangeSights: Tattoos you can listen to; ‘garden spicers’; and, the case of the ambassador and the wild boar…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…