Word: divorcee
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Playing history's tantalizing game of what-if, Fraser posits that English history would have been rewritten had Catherine of Aragon's infant son lived to maturity. There would have been no divorce; Henry would have remained Catholic and the course of the English Reformation would have been profoundly altered...
We give equal shares of the divorce-settlement pie.
In a chapter written for the newly released paperback of his book on Diana, Andrew Morton states that the couple made a friendly agreement between themselves to separate. That pact did not survive stormy sessions with Charles' parents, who supposedly would love to see Diana go but resist any concessions...
Despite the common impression, a divorce would not interfere with Charles' future position as head of the Church of England -- even if the church's critics accuse it of "moving the goalposts" to keep the monarchy and its own traditions alive. The deterrents, however, are formidable. Philip Ziegler observes that...
Much of the catechism, of course, merely reasserts traditional stands, including the church's hotly contested opposition to women priests, birth control, divorce, mercy killing and abortion. The catechism may not be especially innovative but, asserts Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger of Paris, it "will appear, with time, to be one...