Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston is head of the commission created to advise Pope Francis on how to tackle clerical sex abuse of minors and make bishops accountable for cover-ups and failure to prevent abuse. “Obviously,” he said, “there has to be consequences and there needs to be procedures that will allow these cases to …
If you have visited Herculaneum, one of the towns buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, you will be familiar with the Villa of the Papyri, owned at the time by Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, a politician and father-in-law of Julius Caesar. It was a seaside villa on a palatial scale – the width of …
“My sister found herself in an awkward conversation with her broadband services supplier to whom she was making a complaint. After a sticky exchange she finally interjected: ‘If you don’t mind me saying so, you aren’t dealing with this complaint awfully well.’ To which the woman on the other end replied, ‘Actually, I’ve just been …
Yesterday the posting reported the latest disastrous proposals on ordinary trade. The other leak, obtained by the Greens MEP Michel Reimon, concerns financial regulatory co-operation. This is a contentious area: the US is reluctant to harmonize financial regulations through TAFTA/TTIP because Europe’s are weaker; for the same reason, the European finance industry is keen to …
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54% of men and 31% of women in their 70s and 80s describe themselves as sexually active. However, only 31% of men and 20% of women of that age say they often kiss their partners. (English Longitudinal Study of Ageing/The Telegraph) Bother! And here I am I telling Americans how romantic British men are!
