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...It’s kind of like the revelation of a new pope. Seven men, it’s always men, walk out from behind a curtain in order of their rank....
...His Twitter feed sprinkles retweets about Catholic feast days and audiences with Pope Francis among legal matters....
...On the eve of the anniversary, Pope Francis called for a “decisive” commitment to end fighting and rebuild the nation. (Reuters) What else we’re reading Hydrogen-powered planes: pie in the sky?...
...Among the family photographs he brought to the Oval Office was one of himself with Pope Francis....
...Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, once asked, “How many divisions does the Pope have?” after Winston Churchill advised him to take heed of the Vatican’s views....
...Sit beside Castel Gandolfo, where for centuries popes spent the season. There are paths through its forest-fringed edges to swimming holes, as well as beaches, where you can wash off the city dust....
...In a rare instance of the president responding to public criticism, he made a U-turn after coming under fire from everyone from Pope Francis to his wife Melania....
...Republicans saw an opportunity to peel off rural and Protestant voters, so they pilloried Smith for his alleged obedience to the Pope and he was crushed in the election by Herbert Hoover....
...It was Mr Roosevelt who visited Italy for the last time in an official capacity without seeing the Pope....
...October’s auction season in London will be remembered as the time that Francis Bacon’s “Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd Version 1971” (1971) didn’t sell....
...(Holmes commonly gets the citation because he was quoted by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, although American variants of the theme go back at least as far as 1848....
...He sees the British and French socialists Jeremy Corbyn and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (not to mention Pope Francis) as soulmates....
...She will need the eloquence of Abraham Lincoln and the moral resolution of Eleanor Roosevelt. So no pressure then, Madame President. The writer is an FT contributing editor...
...Imagine that this Christmas day, the Queen, the Pope and even Oprah Winfrey announced that Christmas would be a purely religious occasion from 2015 onwards. There would be no presents and no feasting....
...He did not help himself by making Simplicius, the upholder of the old geocentric view, use words close to those of Pope Urban VII (and by giving him a name that sounds suspiciously like “simpleton”)....
...Eleanor Roosevelt, Pope Paul VI, President Lyndon Johnson, Bianca Jagger and poet Maya Angelou have all praised it. They are wrong to do so. Canada is right....
...Most happily for the reader, Kennedy was the son of the US ambassador to the UK and mingled with popes, presidents and prime ministers....
...Suddenly the voice – from teasingly conversational to clangorously epic to tenderly lyric – is right beside you even when it’s a talking beast: “The Pope pops Satan, Satan pips the Pope,”/ Plutus barked...
...Roosevelt in 1933 urging speed of purpose. In 1938, he wrote again, lamenting that “far too much precious time has passed”....
...There was a good start: “I’m told the last three speakers here have been the Pope, Her Majesty the Queen and Nelson Mandela, which is either a very high bar or the beginning of a very funny joke.”...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt 90. Simone de Beauvoir 91. Josip Tito, president of Yugoslavia, 1953-80 92. Sarah Palin 93. Michael Manley, Jamaican PM, 1972-80 and 1989-92 94. Pope John Paul II 95....
...Every year the townspeople burn Pope Paul V and sundry politicians in effigy in their politically incorrect bonfire celebrations....
...“And we had two presidents that had a big impact on the 20th century: Roosevelt and Reagan.”...
...He spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a giant basilica in his home town of Yamoussoukro, which was consecrated by Pope John Paul II in 1990....
...Roosevelt was New York state governor – the position Spitzer is seeking this year – before moving on to the White House....
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