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...Positioned as a memoir, history and memorial, it relates Nguyen’s family’s experience of war and exile to wider themes of refugeehood, colonisation and racism....
...Pope Francis, an Argentine Jesuit, soon established a reputation as a comparative liberal. If Benedict lived by the letter of Church law, Francis lives by its spirit....
...In Sehwan fans of this Sufi saint adorn his memorial with Rosa indica, grown in nurseries for the purpose....
...Late last month Pope Francis asked Cardinal Becciu to resign — relieving him of his position as the man in charge of overseeing the canonisation of Catholic saints — as a result of allegations about the...
...Sotheby’s will offer about 1,300 pieces of decorative arts from the Hôtel Lambert, a Unesco-listed building on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris....
...Pope Francis was admitted to a Rome hospital for scheduled surgery to treat symptomatic diverticular stenosis, the Vatican said on Sunday. ....
...Hospital....
...They have day jobs teaching or doing charity or social work, emulating the life of Francis of Assisi, their founding saint....
...When we next encounter him, he’s in a psychiatric hospital, dosed up on Largactil, stuttering and wooly headed....
...Becciu, who up until last year was in charge of the Vatican’s office for deciding who becomes a Catholic saint, had fiercely denied any wrongdoing....
...This places the weight of spiritual reassurances on religious leaders, including Pope Francis....
...“Hospital at Saint Rémy” depicts the view: twisting baroque trees against a darkening turquoise backcloth just pierced by what Van Gogh called “the gravity of great sunlight effects”....
...In this way, the Chapel Of The Good Shepherd at Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan can be seen as a sort of crossover....
...Aged 32, after 14 years of training during which he learnt to speak six languages fluently, Father Tommy was ordained as a Jesuit priest, the same order as that of the current Pope Francis....
...In Jerusalem, he signed a breezy note in the guest book of Yad Vashem, the memorial to the Holocaust. At the Vatican, he faced a sour-faced Pope Francis and called the meeting fantastic....
...A hospital in the area was evacuated and the diocese of Rieti closed all churches, cancelling Sunday masses amid fears that the places of worship may be unsafe....
...“But Francis is not Benedict XVI....
...The order was founded when a group of knights established a hospital to tend people of all faiths. The motives of these warrior monks were “complicated”, Festing admits....
...The Ottawa Hospital reported that it had taken in four patients between 10.20am and 12.43pm....
...In Belgium, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will meet the Belgian royal family at L’Abbaye Saint Laurent and will attend a memorial service in Liège....
...In the less than a year since he ascended the throne of Saint Peter, Pope Francis has hit the Church of Rome like an embracing whirlwind, prompting Catholics to smile again and putting a new spring in their...
...He compared the Church to a “field hospital after a battle” where the doctors were obsessing about cholesterol levels....
...For them, his early reflections on what banking should be – in this bejewelled city of saints and sinners, or anywhere in the world – is worthy of some meditation....
...In 2000, the soon-to-be Russian president Vladimir Putin nestled up to Tony Blair when the then British prime minister visited the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg....
...Rose’s treatment at home, rather than on a noisy and impersonal hospital ward, is proof of the gains the approach can offer....
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