Hints and tips:
...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....
...Pope Francis’s visit this week to the United Arab Emirates is the first by a Roman Catholic pontiff to peninsular Arabia, the land where Islam was born....
...It would be good to hear the views of the journalists who have interviewed the archbishop, of the bishops who support him, and of the thousands of Catholic women who have signed a letter to Pope Francis...
...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...
...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...
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...As a lazy Roman Catholic who never quite made it to confirmation, the generosity of this approach strikes me as a good thing....
...Now, with the help of those who could be called, in a benign sense, the usual suspects – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Rabbi Julia Neuberger et al – Armstrong has launched her Charter for Compassion...
...Walter et al....
...www.cassina.com 5 TV Sofa Bokja One of my personal highlights from December’s Design Miami was a preview of the Al-Sabah Art & Design Collection, the new design venture from Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah of Villa...
...Behind the dusty Byzantine bulwark of the Roman Catholic Westminster cathedral is the rambling, red-brick clergy house. A shiny black door leads off the pavement. “Fr Michael Seed?”...
...Libro de la Cosmographia et Geographia de Affrica....
...He was a “working man of the theatre” - arguably (but not in every respect) superior to Dekker, Middleton, Jonson et al, and no different in kind. He lived in a real world....
...provides the perfect vehicle for a muscular dissection of power in the Roman Republic....
...There is a fascinating fight here against modernism, the forces of Eliot (whom he had the good grace to revere) et al....
...Brazil The world’s largest Roman Catholic country declared seven days of mourning....
...and Orthodox), Chaldeans et al....
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