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** LOUISE PERRY
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From the November issue: The cockneys have mostly left London. Between 2001 and 2021, census records show that the number of “White British” people in London fell from 4.3 million to 3.2 million, at a time when the overall population of the city grew substantially
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** JOHN BYRON KUHNER
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In the not-so-distant past, St. Patrick’s was a different place: quiet, dark, stony, gray. It felt cave-like and natural, lit only by the dark blue of the stained-glass windows and flickering banks of yellow candles.
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** RYAN T. ANDERSON
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The new optional employer fertility insurance benefit is fully customizable, so that an employer could opt to offer a benefit only for ethical fertility treatments like restorative reproductive medicine.
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** VALERIE STIVERS
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From the November issue: My RCIA priest had said that we were required to confess once a year, or any time we’d committed a serious sin. I retained a sense that it was optional and a little weird, something people didn’t really do anymore.
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** Germany’s Escalating Kulturkampf ([link removed])
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** ANDREAS LOMBARD
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The Jagdschloss Thiergarten in Donaustauf near Regensburg was destroyed by a fire on the night of October 6. Three days later, Antifa claimed responsibility for placing “several incendiary devices” in the building.
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