Hope everyone had a good Mother’s Day! Belief Beat is on a break this week, while I’m visiting family overseas. (Unfortunately, I’m missing Pope Benedict’s visit to Cyprus by less than a month… Then again, between the volcanic ash still spreading from Iceland, the strikes bogging down travelers in Greece, and our inevitable interfaith christening confusion, this trip is already fraught with enough drama beyond my control!)

If anything major breaks before May 17, someone at Beliefnet will update this blog for me. In the meantime, here are my top five sites to check for religion news:

• Beliefnet News
• Religion News Blog
• Catholic News Agency (for a substitute Pope Watch, check out CNA’s Vatican headlines)
• JTA: Jewish & Israel News
• GetReligion

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