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Tucked in the archive section of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' website, a visitor can find a video of the soft-spoken Anglican leader reflecting on his momentous 2006 visit to the Vatican. Williams had come to meet Pope Benedict XVI to mark the 40th anniversary of the opening...
Are there any areas in which the U.S. and Europe are vastly different? Religion. That's where the differences remain the biggest. I think it's generally true that Americans are more religious than Europeans. The U.S. is more comparable to Mediterranean Catholic nations than the Protestant nations of Northern...
Reality differed from Humphreys' expectations. His arrival in Bindoon, a small town in Western Australia, marked the end of his formal education. By 14, he was driving a truck to collect rocks and sand for a construction site where he and other child-migrant laborers were working. They were under...
Officials are also concerned about the influx of foreigners from nations where assisted suicide is illegal - Britain, France, Germany - who are coming to Switzerland to end their lives. A government advisory body on biomedical ethics estimates that out of approximately 350 to 400 cases of assisted suicide each year, about...
Between gay marriage, decriminalized abortion and all that pornography on TV, you'd think that the Spanish would be impossible to shock. After all, theirs is a country that in the past couple of decades has not merely evolved from its conservative, Catholic past but has rushed dramatically away from...