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...In October 2002, some 300,000 people gathered in St Peter’s Square to witness Escrivá’s canonisation....
...April 26 to 28; further information and tickets here Event St Patrick’s Day London celebrates St Patrick’s Day in style, with a huge, emerald-clad crowd snaking its way from Piccadilly to Trafalgar Square...
...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....
...Around this time, spring of 2020, Father Healey of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic church in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, received a strange call....
...But one of the best yellow art-related stories is from the children’s unit at St Mary’s Hospital in London, which features artworks in the hue donated by The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, including murals...
...It was released on the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, from whom Jorge Mario Bergoglio took his papal name. The Vatican tries to avoid politically partisan and electoral pronouncements....
...“I’ve had a Eucharist jones,” said Megan Quinn, a St Gertrude parishioner of three decades, who had felt the same craving....
...On the last Friday in March, Francis prayed almost alone in a rain-sodden St Peter’s Square in front of a wooden crucifix that, Catholic tradition says, helped to staunch the Roman plague of 1522....
...Pope Francis, the Argentine prelate whose ascent to the chair of St Peter five years ago has given new life to the Roman Catholic Church, is facing a bitter backlash against his progressive papacy — amid...
...Two of his four brothers are also Catholic priests, a reflection perhaps of the fact that 18 per cent of Kerala’s population is Catholic....
...in Lisbon, Portugal Day of remembrance Relatives and friends of the 71 people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire in west London on June 14 leave a National Memorial Service at St Paul’s Cathedral Into...
...After reading history at St John’s College, Cambridge, he joined the Grenadier Guards with tours of duty in the Gulf, Northern Ireland and Belize....
...His name was more unexpected still: Alexander Francis Viswanathan Crabtree....
...So Shakespeare wrote a speech for another play in that year of 1599: Henry V, in which the day of Crispin and Crispinian is reclaimed for God, for King Harry, England and St George....
...Wall St. may allow him to follow in Reagan’s footsteps....
...helm of the Catholic Church....
...But the theology that interprets Catholic teaching may well become more dynamic, as Francis clearly intends to change the structures that seek to implement it....
...St Stanislaus Institute, Slovenia’s top Catholic education institute, claimed that investing with the Church “out of love” would bring “inner joy, now and in eternity”....
...In March 2013, there was a new pope – a Jesuit evoking the poverty and humility of St Francis of Assisi – and he quickly set a tone on financial correctness....
...Art book of 2014, this revised edition marks the 250th birthday of St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum....
...Andrea Jones’ exquisite pictures set this book apart....
...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...
...His elucidation of works such as the St Matthew Passion makes you want to listen to the music afresh....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Read her review of the V&A’s new show ‘The Cult of Beauty’ ………………………………………….....
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