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Roman holiday
The big occasion is the Papal Jubilee year of 2025, expected to draw a whopping 32 million visitors
Owen Matthews
It highlights the fact that the pontiff has a major consistency problem in the area of international relations
Samuel Gregg
‘Worrying about personal, community or national identity… easily introduces an ideological criterion that distorts social life’
Cockburn
Contemporary Irish writers have a knack of making their recent past feel very foreign
Susie Mesure
Place
They say the Italians are beautiful and it is true — but not on this beach
Nicholas Farrell