T his is not a great time to be a woman. Plus ça change, as my French sister-in-law might say. Fair point. Yet the evidence ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires stood on the balcony of St Peter’s in Rome after being elected Pope on 13 ...

The decision by Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to reject the lavish red slippers of his office was widely interpreted as a small act of rebellion in the tradition-bound Vatican. The ...