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Beautiful words
Cobblestones glistened; fountains shimmered. There was a nasty chill in the air
Paul Wood
No one in the American church has benefited more from Pope Francis’s vengefulness than Cardinal Robert McElroy
Damian Thompson
The big occasion is the Papal Jubilee year of 2025, expected to draw a whopping 32 million visitors
Owen Matthews
It highlights the fact that the pontiff has a major consistency problem in the area of international relations
Samuel Gregg
Religion
‘Worrying about personal, community or national identity… easily introduces an ideological criterion that distorts social life’
Cockburn