Hints and tips:
...Critics often referred to him as the president’s “grey cardinal” and Ukraine’s “prince of darkness” because of the power and influence he wielded in Kyiv....
...The genius of Jamie Lloyd’s stunning new production of the 1993 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton) is the way it rips the story away from its lavish trappings...
...In the 1720s and 1730s there was a long peace between Britain under Sir Robert Walpole and France under Cardinal Fleury....
...In the case of All Souls that meant focusing on the college wealth inherited from Christopher Codrington, a hugely prosperous slave owner....
...Even Christopher Marlowe, writing his play The Massacre at Paris 20 years later for an English Protestant audience, couldn’t help making the perpetrators into some of his most charismatic creations, and...
...“The Martyrdom of St Christopher” sets groups of vivid figures within an architectural mise-en-scène of detailed arches, columns and receding palaces....
...Cardinal Reginald Pole, an English prelate, fulminated that Machiavelli’s works had been written by “the finger of Satan”. Generation after generation kept up the attacks....
...When the FT asked his predecessor as dean, Christopher Lewis, whether he felt overworked in the role, Lewis replied: “No. You were busy.”...
...Mussolini, who started out as a journalist, wrote The Cardinal’s Mistress, a lurid, anticlerical romance, as a newspaper serial in 1910....
...“The concentration levels required are staggering,” Christophers told me. “The experience [of performing the work] is totally draining.”...
...The certificate is signed by Cardinal Joseph Fesch....
...They relish Orton’s pin-sharp dialogue and observe the cardinal rule of comedy — taking it absolutely seriously....
...“Francis would be happy to be a prophetic voice, even if world events appear to be moving against him,” said Christopher Lamb, the Vatican correspondent for The Tablet, a UK Catholic weekly....
...Failure to deliver on time is a cardinal crime for Santa, too....
...There is a strong whiff of incense-wafting here — Cardinal Newman’s “grammar of assent” is evoked. As with Christianity, great poetry requires an act of faith: something beyond mere “understanding”....
...Christopher, the mystery's narrator, numbered his chapters, missing out cardinal numbers and using only prime numbers because he liked them and “like life, they are very logical but you could never work...
...Commissioned by the cardinal Giulio Mazzarino as a way of injecting Italian culture into the French court, it makes a fascinating relic....
...Moreover, the Pope could appoint women as cardinals (a function not a vocation) to promote egalitarian decision-making....
...But the stand-out performance is from Robert Willoughby as the ambitious, conniving Cardinal Anastasius, lending the production both humour and weight....
...But Cardinal Bergoglio was probably aiming his words at everybody, not just priests....
...The 82-year-old Spanish cardinal Julián Herranz told El Mundo this week that the Church needs more popes like Benedict....
...I think back to the first truly modern and conceptual garden that appeared at the Chelsea Flower show, designed by Christopher Bradley-Hole for the Daily Telegraph in 1997....
...Paeonia “Cardinal Vaughan” Tree peonies have a long history in horticulture....
...She lives and works in New York, but goes to Marfa regularly with her husband, the artist Christopher Wool. What brought you to Marfa?...
...I picture a cardinal in purple slippers gliding through the crowd of hipsters and off-stage models but suddenly remember why I’m here: Valentine’s Day. Roses, peonies, ranunculus or lilies?...
International Edition