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The First Afterlife of Pope Benedict XVI
The first pope to resign was Celestine V, born Pietro Da Morrone, who was living the life of a pious…
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World
In Bucha, a Final Rampage Served as a Coda to a Month of Atrocities
Hours before Russian troops began withdrawing from the suburban town, a Russian soldier left a trail of blood and devastated…
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T.C.U. Topples Michigan in Wild Playoff Semifinal
Texas Christian returned two interceptions for touchdowns, just part of a zany back-and-forth upset of Michigan, 51-45, to put the…
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Katie Couric: What Barbara Walters Made Possible for Women
Every female broadcast journalist working today owes a debt of gratitude to the O.G., Barbara Walters, who died Friday at…
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US
The Invention of Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik had had enough. In the wake of the 2018 midterms, the young congresswoman was sick of commuting to…
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Jean Franco, 98, Pioneering Scholar of Latin American Literature, Dies
She infused her work with political and feminist perspectives and insisted that art had to be understood within its social…
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Finance
How Barbara Walters Went From ‘Today Girl’ to Pioneering Media Star
Long before she became the first woman to co-anchor a network newscast and the foremost prime-time interviewer of heads of…
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World
Benedict was criticized for his leadership of the church’s sex abuse scandal.
The clerical sex abuse scandal festered and then broke open under Pope John Paul II in the years that Cardinal…
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The Choice of a Medically Assisted Death
Readers discuss a column by Ross Douthat criticizing Canada’s medical assistance in dying law.
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World
His resignation as pope in 2013 shocked the world.
ROME — When Benedict XVI resigned in 2013, he was the first pope to do so in six centuries, and…