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...London’s Christians have a history of hospitality dating back to Norman times (the Royal Foundation of St Katharine in Limehouse, just beyond the Roman city walls, has provided bed, board and worship since...
...Catholic Church....
...Voting ends on 27 March UK, a service will be held at Westminster Abbey to mark Commonwealth Day, the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations....
...The day before I’m due to leave Rome, Benanti invites me to eat lunch with the friars, a mark of Franciscan hospitality....
...Beyond the cabanas, I can just about see the white uniforms of the staff on The Lady in Blue, and across to St Paul’s Island, where a huge statue on the cliff marks the spot where St Paul swam to shore after...
...Father Martin Magill of St John’s parish in Belfast said: “There does seem to be less tension on the streets on the loyalist side tonight.”...
...This lasted until Chagall was 97 and completed his final window, for St Stephen’s Mainz....
...One of these, Charing Cross Road, was once the notorious parish of St Giles, depicted by Hogarth in “Gin Lane”....
...Sitting in the churchyard of St Mary’s, the 250-year-old parish church of Lewisham in south-east London, she recounts how her partner would remind her she had no legal right to be in the UK....
...“There’s a great big theological debate among Christians about whether you can celebrate holy communion remotely,” said Charlie Thomson, associate vicar at St Mark’s Battersea Rise in south London....
...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....
...The location in the old city, just below St Peter’s cave church, where the apostle and St Paul are believed to have worshipped, and close to the world-class archaeology museum, appeared perfectly positioned...
...Last year, Kirill abruptly reassigned Shevkunov, Putin’s reputed confessor, to the crumbling backwater parish of Pskov with a day’s notice....
...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...
...Catholics to protect migrants and refugees....
...“It’s battlefield stuff being a priest these days in a frontline parish like [this one],” he says. “It’s not a very good term but the Catholic ‘brand’, if you like, is in trouble....
...But it also houses some of the company’s older specialist equipment with which to hand-make tapered candles for ancient buildings like Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral....
...State schools: St Mary’s Roman Catholic primary school in North Kensington, then Cardinal Manning Roman Catholic school for boys....
...He was not Roman Catholic, but — despite top marks — had failed to get into posher schools. The grounds below Devil’s Peak (still in use) are the setting for rugby and cricket matches....
...“I grew up down the road from the Roman Catholic shrine of Carfin Grotto, which is the Scottish version of Lourdes,” explains Kane....
...The same word is now engraved below a carving of a phoenix rising from the fire above the south portico....
...The most historically significant document concerns an apparently mundane deal between two businessmen agreeing terms for the delivery of 20 loads of foodstuffs from Verulamium (St Albans) to London....
...A few hours after we met, he issued a statement to mark the death of Fidel Castro, whom he called “a giant among global leaders”....
...Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, by Bettany Hughes, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£25 A historian and broadcaster tells the story of one of the world’s great cities through its Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman...
...St Patrick’s arrival and the priestly sex scandals....
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