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Pope Francis recently called surrogacy “deplorable” and “a grave violation” that exploits the birth mother and the unborn child. The Onion asked Catholics why they opposed surrogacy, and this is what they said.

This one-woman play aims to dramatise Wax’s globe-trotting spiritual quest but gets sidetracked into anecdote

“I do not have trauma,” Ruby Wax insists at the mental institution she checks herself into in the summer of 2022. “Trauma,” she adds dismissively, “is an Oprah word.” Doth the comic, actress, jovially provocative TV interviewer and mental-health advocate — yes, she’s aware of the irony, thank you — protest too much?

Scotland’s royal heartland celebrates the King’s coronation ceremony.