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The ’Splainer: What’s a cardinal?

By David Gibson — November 15, 2016
(RNS) On Nov. 19 at the Vatican, Pope Francis will officially name – or “create,” as the Catholic Church prefers to say – 17 new cardinals. What is a cardinal anyway? Where did they come from? What do they do? Let us ‘Splain …

Parallel lives? Trump and Berlusconi

By Massimo Faggioli — November 12, 2016
(RNS) Similarities to Italy’s former prime minister should make Trump-supporting Christians nervous.
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