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1993: Sailors find a child from the Titanic! The little girl, dressed in the fashion of 1912, was calling for her mother! Child from the Titanic found alive! On the whole, these are the only newspapers I see any point in reading.
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This truly overturns the millennial foundations of the Catholic Church. The new constitution maintains that the presence of lay Catholics in leading roles in the Curia is necessary because of their familiarity with family life and social reality. As though priests lived in some other reality; and if they do,
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The Desacralisation of Church Institutions and Pope Francis: on Saturday 19 March Pope Francis Allowed Any Baptised Lay Catholic, Even a Woman, to Head Departments in the Vatican Administration. For centuries these posts could be held only by high-ranking clergymen, men naturally. It turned out that this could be
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She might at least have been ashamed before the icons. Philippe-Jacques van Bree, Nude, 1868
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At the Leningrad University philological faculty, Tatyana Gnedich, great-great-grandniece of the translator of the «Iliad», was accused, in her postgraduate studies, of concealing her noble origins. When the accusation reached Gnedich herself, she objected: how could she possibly have concealed her nobility with the surname Gnedich, when the
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“Gnedich was arrested right at the end of the war, in 1945. By her own account, she had denounced herself. What she told was scarcely plausible, yet it may have been the product of a peculiar wartime psychosis: supposedly she, then a candidate member of the Party (at the Central
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