
For many centuries friendship was considered to be a solely masculine fact, a “lofty” sentiment, cathartic, which uplifted the spirit: Achilles and Patroclus, Euryalus and Nisus, and also David and Jonathan – literature and the text of the Bible itself offer us famous examples. Women remained rigorously excluded, their friendship was neither worthy of note nor merited being recounted and exalte...
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Women friends
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The lifeblood of the house flows between us, but it is from heaven
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The language of the spirit
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Child brides in Florida
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A thriller without rape or women butchered?
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Education against the slave trade in Nepal
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St. Peter’s Square
April 22, 2018

L'Osservatore Romano's weekly edition in Malayalam 13 april 2018
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Calling card
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