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...But within a few months, she would commit to years of unpaid domestic service for one of the most powerful organisations in the Catholic Church....
...“In one case, the Catholic Church is even our landlord, and the pastor never raised any concern.”...
...On December 24, the Holy Trinity Church in Shanghai will hold its first Christmas Eve service in some time....
...She accepts the axioms of Keith Thomas’ classic 1971 Religion and the Decline of Magic, which blamed the English Reformation for cracking down on folk magic....
...His first charge was the 14th-century church in the village of St Monans....
...I retire to my spartan but comfortable room, named for St Bede....
...Most of Gaza’s Christian community of about 1,000 people have been sheltering in the Holy Family church and the nearby St Porphyrius Greek Orthodox church since the start of the war....
...I stop at the Church of St Vincent while waiting for the short shuttle bus back to my hotel, stepping softly as my ski boots knock against 500-year-old stone....
...“I grew up as a Filipino Catholic and I do not identify with the church any more....
...They also have the pulling power to borrow more, including treasures from Belgian private collections and Oxford’s Christ Church Picture Gallery....
...Benedictine abbeys such as di Praglia have long prided themselves on their ability to sustain themselves without support from the Catholic church....
...The Rev Bridget Spain had just ended a memorial in Dublin’s Unitarian Church on Good Friday last month when a woman went up and gave her a box of chocolates....
...Isis-K was “a name [people] should remember”, Germany’s domestic intelligence service head Thomas Haldenwang said last year. “The group is trying to make a name for itself with attacks . . ....
...Hindu spiritual practices such as yoga occupy many a church hall on a Saturday morning, and sober corporations exhort their employees to chill out to techniques borrowed from Zen Buddhism (mindfulness)....
...The smell of incense filled St Bartholomew’s church, where Simone Rocha staged her show after a triumphant appearance in Paris last month as the sixth guest designer (but the first from London) for Jean...
...In the winding lanes of the citadel, I came upon St Mary’s Church, now a museum of the paintings of Onufri, one of the great 16th-century icon painters....
...Catholic Church: In Rome, Pope Francis opens a three-week meeting attended by Catholics from all over the world to discuss the future of the church. Five more top stories 1....
...But this financialisation also sparked a “crisis of values”, Jackson adds, since money was considered intrinsically sinful by the Christian church....
...This is the largest church in the world according to the Guinness World Records. This grandiose building was the pet project of the then president, the committed Roman Catholic Félix Houphouët-Boigny....
...In St Peter’s Square this week, mourners were themselves considering the results of the Church’s first experiment in living with two popes....
...St Anthony Abbott had given away his possessions and retreated to the wilderness to pray in virtuous poverty....
...Many rooms look over the White House itself and others on to historic St John’s Church. A few smaller rooms are tucked away at the back off the street for those who want quiet....
...When it was, the mass continued with Byrd’s Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis, mezzo Aryssa Burrs lamenting “Tallis is dead” intense and tragic....
...But Faggioli tells me such attacks could embolden a pontiff — whose cautious approach to reforms has frustrated more progressive Catholics — and compel him to prove “he is not a lame duck”....
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