Pope alexander vi divides the planet

On the feast day of St Mary Magdalene in 1342, the heavens opened over Würzburg with unrelenting fury. What had begun as a whisper in the summer air was thundering like a wild beast. The skies, heavy

It was a raucous scene, as Jacobean banquets tended to be. Men and women of the court, one observer recalled, “rolled in intoxication”. Even the most temperate had collapsed into “brutish delights”, l

Born in the U.S., forged in Peru, chosen in Rome, Leo XIV will helm a church facing debt, division and decline

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Modern art is sometimes hard to swallow – as in a recent case where an artist bought three piglets which he put into a cage made of old shopping trolleys to have them “painfully” die from hunger. Dani

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