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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....
...A balding Roman with dark-rimmed glasses and a penchant for jokes, Benanti was born in Trastevere, a neighbourhood on the west bank of the River Tiber, just south of the Vatican....
...Trial begins at the Vatican today of a Roman Catholic cardinal who used to be a close ally of Pope Francis. The Vatican now says that it lost a huge amount of money....
...Until this week Wilton Gregory, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, was probably best known outside religious circles as the man who lambasted Donald Trump for a photo-op stunt in June....
...Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris, a fundraising group started by the Archbishop of Paris and the Diocese of Paris, estimated this month that 90 per cent of the donations that had been received had come from...
...In the old Roman Catholic faith, the year was shaped around high days and holy days, saint’s day after saint’s day: different memories for different kinds of sanctity and martyrdom....
...Cunard is now a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, the Miami-based group that is the world’s largest operator of cruise ships....
...Cardinal SEÁN PATRICK O’MALLEY, US The Archbishop of Boston since 2003 could become the first pope from the Capuchin order, known for their service to the poor....
...The story for Hombre was published in 1961, when Leonard was moving into crime writing, mingling his existing style with the urban vernacular of George V Higgins, the Boston-based author of The Friends of...
...For centuries, death has been the only form of succession planning at the top of the Roman Catholic Church, a practice shared – ironically and incongruously – with the old Soviet Union....
...Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic and only elector, opted to not join the conclave following allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour and his decision to resign as Archbishop...
...Holy week devotions Pope Francis I washes the feet of 12 priests at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican during a Chrism mass marking Maundy Thursday as the Roman Catholic church builds up to Easter Sunday...
...Other prominent members of the church, including the archbishops of Milan, Boston and Durban, already tweet, and Pope Benedict sent his first missive from the Vatican’s feed last June....
...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...
...As a lazy Roman Catholic who never quite made it to confirmation, the generosity of this approach strikes me as a good thing....
...Karen Armstrong, who has been a Roman Catholic nun, and then a non-believer, and then a sort of theist, is now an ambassador for all that is best in the great religions of the world....
...Williams is quick to dismiss this: “I don’t think it will solve our problems in that sense – precisely because when people aren’t Roman Catholics they usually aren’t Roman Catholics for a reason....
...Boston to Glasgow....
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