Emmanuel Macron not only wants to “reform” France but to “transform” it.
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Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
The Vatican reports first case of coronavirus
The normal services of the health and hygiene sector of the Vatican city-state were “temporarily suspended” following yesterday’s positive test for Covid-19 on one patient in order “to sanitize the areas.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
After slight cold, Pope Francis reportedly tests negative for coronavirus
Italy has reported more than 1,800 cases of the China-born virus and 66 people have died while nearly 150 have recovered, while the rest allegedly remain in quarantine. Most of the cases were reported in northern Italy, near Milan and Venice.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
A beloved London neighborhood is the star of ‘The Street’
Filmed over four years, the film is about the change that has come to Hoxton, the city’s latest chic, hipsterish district.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Isabel Allende’s timely new novel unveils the lifelong effects of war
Isabel Allende’s novel of profound displacement reflects the life of someone who has known displacement as her permanent state.
Posted inFaith, News
Cardinal Marx will not seek reelection as head of German bishops
The German bishops are due to hold their next regularly scheduled elections at the spring full assembly in early March in Mainz.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A wild war between zoos
J. W. Mohnhaupt’s first book, The Zookeepers’ War, is an earnest plunge into the extraordinary history behind Berlin’s competing zoos during the Cold War.
Posted inFaith, News
Cardinal Mueller criticized for his Nazi comparison of Germany’s synodal way process
ZdK president Thomas Sternberg told Germany’s Catholic News Agency (KNA): “There is criticism that disqualifies itself. It is so removed from everyday life that it cannot be taken seriously.”
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Germany’s synodal assembly draws praise, criticism from participants
The first synodal assembly on the future the Catholic Church in Germany drew both praise and some criticism, with many of the 230 participants lauding what they called a special atmosphere in the debates on key reforms.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Don’t ask for whom the Brexit bell tolls …
As a moment approaches that is certainly historically massive, one of great triumph or crushing disaster according to your Brexit leaning, Britons are winding ourselves up over a clockwork bell and getting into a flap about a flag.