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...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...Simony, which is the sale of ecclesiastical office, had extended to every bishop, archbishop and cardinal’s position by the time Rodrigo de Borja became pope. Indeed, he bought the papacy....
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...McQueen retrospective Savage Beauty at both the V&A and the Met....
...: Couturier du Rêve broke records for Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs with over 700,000 visitors; and the Alexander McQueen retrospective Savage Beauty was the most successful ever at the V&A — a return...
...two choirboys in 1996 when he was the Archbishop of Melbourne....
...In the UK, the archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, leads services at Canterbury Cathedral....
...Royal visitors King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands meet the Queen on a one-day visit to Britain....
...The new Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the world’s Anglicans, Justin Welby, praised Pope Benedict as having been “a messenger of hope at a time when Christian faith is being called into question....
...In the same pragmatic spirit, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, has urged corporate leaders to harness both the desire for profit maximisation and the need to...
...Cycling, rowing, rugby, cricket – I want to bat for the critics in the “Artists v Critics” match, but the pitch is waterlogged....
..., Archbishop of Canterbury....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...On November 5 a few Britons will burn him in effigy on Bonfire Night, a weakening echo of what was once the Protestant majority’s enthusiastic annual celebration of the thwarting of a 1605 Catholic plot...
...Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, by Karen Armstrong, The Bodley Head, RRP£12.99, 224 pages The religious slanging match that divides the media of the western world – Dawkins v Creation, Allah v Hitchens...
...Walpole’s rooms toyed with styles: one copied a ceiling from Windsor Castle, had a chimney-piece inspired by the tomb of Henry VIII’s last Catholic archbishop and threw in a modern four-poster bed, beside...
...The library was opened by the Catholic Archbishop of Kampala, Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala....
...In the Olympic Village, the Communist Hungarian flag was taken down in protest and replaced by the Kossuth Arms with a black band of mourning. Water polo, the semi-final: Hungary v....
...Adventure writing was popular at the end of the 19th century, as in Britain. Alexander von Humboldt is the best known proponent of the art, along with Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu series....
...Michael V....
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