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...There’s a terrific sense of being in the presence of the wily old pontiff, known as the “Warrior Pope”....
...In that era, the future pope was known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a talented scholar who for almost a quarter of a century served as the intellectual architect of John Paul’s papacy....
...Previously known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict had until then been the head of the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which set guidelines for the world’s 1.3bn Catholics....
...Since the international success of Star of the Sea (2002), Joseph O’Connor has written mostly historical fiction....
...Writer Joseph Roth told Stefan Zweig, “Do not delude yourself. Hell reigns”. By late February, Nazi decrees had laid the basis for “absolute control”....
...The requisitions were carried out in parallel with Joseph Stalin’s policy of forced collectivisation....
...The reply to Joseph Stalin’s question how many divisions has the Pope (Letters, January 12) was provided by the reception John Paul II received in Warsaw in 1983 when his homeland was under martial law....
...Two weeks ago, however, the Argentine-born pope spoke out in uncompromising language against the war....
...Across the vast country of 11 time zones, the prisons and labour camps still held critics of Soviet power, though millions fewer than in Joseph Stalin’s time....
...Your leader (“The EU’s regrettable absence on Ukraine”, FT View, January 11) brought to mind Joseph Stalin’s famous, and in this case apposite, question: “The Pope. How many divisions has he?”...
...He was reading Harvard psychologist Joseph Henrich’s book The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, about the cultural quirks of “western...
...In another life, I would be the Pope! They live in the most beautiful place. But the Pope in Renaissance times – not now....
...When I was a kid I wanted to be the Pope. My family was very religious, but, very quickly, I understood that you have to study a lot to become the Pope, so I wanted to be a missionary....
...It will be 79 years next Sunday since Joseph Stalin died, but Uncle Joe’s totalitarian principles are alive and well in the fatherland. Is there hope?...
...His successor Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) also wore white shoes but these were more bootees than the robust AirWair....
...Harvard academic Joseph Henrich has a different big idea: not marrying your cousins....
...Archbishop Gregory was a protégé of the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, a towering influence on American Catholicism and standard-bearer of Vatican II ideas....
...“Because President Biden is Catholic, it presents a unique problem for us,” Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City recently told the Associated Press. “It can create confusion . . ....
...Joseph Zen, an outspoken retired Hong Kong cardinal, called it a “betrayal”....
...“Corona is the devil that cannot survive in the body of Jesus,” he added, shrugging off Pope Francis’s wishes that churches hold Easter mass without bringing their congregations together....
...Hundreds have been killed since the conflict began in 2017 and more than 100,000 have been displaced in what Pope Francis called a “grave humanitarian crisis” in his Easter message this year....
...Early in The Two Popes, the year is 2005 and a papal conclave has assembled to elect the successor to Pope John Paul II. “What hymn is that?”...
...It then appealed to that keen landscaper, the poet Alexander Pope. Hoare inscribed it in Pope’s translation. The temple now known as the Pantheon was first called the temple of Hercules....
...His zeal explains the origin of his title, the pope of Beaujolais....
...Until 2018 Cardinal Becciu was the second-highest ranking official in the Secretariat of State reporting directly to both Pope Benedict and later Pope Francis....
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