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The ‘Barbarian’ of Europe

The girl who helps me with my ironing is Polish. She’s clever – too clever for ironing, but she does it because it’s not that easy to come over to Western Europe and find a job just like that. Really, she’s an engineer – mechanical. I found that out the...

The Problem of Evil, Simplified

Following a lengthy report from the Vatican Theological Commission in 2006, Pope Benedict abolished the first circle of hell, known as purgatory. Unbaptised infants would no longer be trapped in limbo. More recently Pope Francis, a fine and profoundly spiritual man,...