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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....
...It was a different story by 1529, if we are to trust a report filed to London by Sir Nicholas Carew and Richard Sampson, two English envoys who travelled to Bologna for Charles V’s coronation as Holy Roman...
...Whether at Hadrian’s Wall or in a car park in the City, she shows how Roman traces are woven through British life....
...“For the Catholic church it is impossible to appoint a bishop if the Pope does not want him,” he said....
...Bishop Abu el-Assal points to the Latin Quarter of Nazareth, traditional stronghold of the Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic and Maronite churches....
...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....
...Conference, and a harsh critic of the premier’s alleged extramarital affairs....
...My main source on the city until then had been Paul Theroux’s Sir Vidia’s Shadow, a mean-spirited and very funny portrait of the writer V.S. Naipaul....
...as we enter the Jewish quarter of the city....
...Al-Wazzan settled in Tunis, a city he praised in the Geography for its cosmopolitan and tolerant nature....
...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....
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
...Mr Buttiglione, sometimes nicknamed il filosofo (the philosopher) in Italy, is a professor at Rome's Free University of St Pius V, a Catholic institution founded in 1996....
...and Orthodox), Chaldeans et al....
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