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August 21, 2023
August 21, 2023
Pope Francis has praised the life and testimony of Italian Father Pino Puglisi 30 years after he was gunned down by Mafia hitmen. In a letter dated July 31 and addressed to Archbishop Corrado Lorefice of Palermo, the heart of Italian mob territory, Francis called Puglisi a “good priest and merciful witness of the Father”.
August 21, 2023
John Reith, the first Director-General of the BBC, was intensely high-minded. A Scottish Presbyterian, he imbued the organisation with a sense of seriousness and moral purpose which endured long after he left the role of DG in the 1930s. The adjective “Reithian”, still in occasional use today, was coined to refer to his emphasis on
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