The new 500-page Brexit proposal released by Theresa May’s government largely ducks the Irish border question, and Britons are growing nervous about food supplies should the plan collapse.
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New policies needed to protect workers, says E.U. bishops’ commission
Politicians must act to assist workers as technology continues to transform jobs across Europe, said a committee of the European Union bishops’ commission.
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A Habsburg with a Twitter account: an interview with Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican
Eduard Habsburg is a writer and diplomat who has served since 2015 as ambassador of Hungary to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta.
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With Anti-Semitism on the rise, can Poland come to terms with its past?
For almost 20 years Polish scholars have been at the cutting edge of Holocaust research. But a law proposed this year threatened to change all that.
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Irish government approves excavation of mass grave site at former Catholic orphanage
Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone announced Tuesday the excavation and recovery of remains. There will be a respectful burial where possible.
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Birth of a new Ukrainian church brings fears of violence
A dozen men organized round-the-clock guard duty, worried that nationalist radicals might make their third attempt in a year to seize the place of worship.
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The Polish Catholic Church is divided over migrants—how will that impact next week’s elections?
For years, the Polish church has been torn between supporting the government’s anti-migrant stance and adopting Pope Francis’ commitment to foreigners.
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Questions surround future of German Jesuit rector over L.G.B.T comments
The delay appears to be about his public comments on homosexuality and the women’s diaconate.
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Review: Eugène Delacroix exhibit arrives for the first time in America
Following an acclaimed exhibition of the great French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened, on Sept. 17, the first full presentation of the artist ever to be held in North America.
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Far-right German party’s plans for Jewish section criticized
One prominent Jewish student group accused the anti-migrant party on Wednesday as being “one of the biggest threats to Jewish … life in Germany.”