The 95-year-old retired pope died at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, his chosen residence after resigning from the papacy in 2013.

Dante’s La Vita Nuova is indisputably the work of a young man, a man whose passions (and poetic compositions) are still discovering the place they ought to have in the world. Thankfully, though, Dante’s ‘immature’ juvenilia is far greater and more penetrating a work than most poets can ever compose in the entire course of their lives.

The Ukrainian government’s long-term plan was to pursue a policy of total Ukrainisation of the country. The context of war and the need to get into the good graces of its neighbours led Kyiv to reconsider. But for the Hungarian minority in Ukraine, it is not enough.

“Sweden is in a very serious situation,” the prime minister began, warning that “the years ahead may be the toughest financially for our country since the 90s crisis and the financial crisis.”

The Grand Mosque condemns Houellebecq’s remarks as “staggeringly brutal.”

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) dismissed Zemmour’s complaint, ruling that decisions made by the French courts were in fact justified.

Why was Bangha remembered by the Jewish press as an ‘enemy of racism’ if his papers were full of anti-Semitism in the early 1920s? The answer seems to lie in his understanding of the role of Catholicism in public life.