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Tim Reidy our online editor is also an inveterate nbsp moviegoer and savvy critic nbsp Here s his take on The White Ribbon as part of our online Culture section nbsp The critically acclaimed film which has been nominated for an Academy nbsp Award for nbsp Best Foreign Language Film is nbs

Lindsay Lohan the actress-cum-fashionista has posed provocatively on the cover of Purple a French fashion magazine to which–zut alors –my subscription just ran out as Jesus Christ nbsp H T to David Gibson at Politics Daily Sort of nbsp nbsp Ms Lohan is wearing a crown of thorns and nb

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes nbsp The first apparitions to St Bernadette Soubirous a poor girl living in Lourdes a small town in the High Pyrenees in Southern France began on this date 151 years ago nbsp

The current issue of The Tablet has an interesting article by Elena Curti about Pope Benedict rsquo s recent remarks to the Bishops of the United Kingdom regarding a proposed Equality Law The proposed law which is making its way through parliament would among other things remove the exemption r

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Former Governor Sarah Palin has become an object of criticism and ridicule for writing notes on the palm of her hand while giving a speech and interview in connection with the Tea Party convention Keith Olbermann on MSNBC went into paroxysms of laughter and hubris-filled disgust that made one quest

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Here is Archbishop Rowan Williams in an extensive statement on religious freedom biblical literalism zealotry ordaining gays and lesbians and women the Christian concept of freedom and social rights as well as on nbsp divisions within the Anglican Communion nbsp This is from his presidentia

The last several years have been exceedingly unkind to Scientology In 2007 the Belgian State Prosecution Office announced that it thought the organization should be prosecuted for crime In late October 2009 a French court found Scientology France guilty of severe fraud in ldquo cheating rdquo