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Putting politicians on the map is not a good idea

Flowers laid outside the home of Baroness Thatcher in Belgravia

Reports suggest Margaret Thatcher will have a street in Madrid named after her.

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Cardinal Seán O'Malley of Boston (Photo: CNS)

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Poles will always be grateful for Thatcher

Radek Sikorski, Poland's Foreign Minister Photo: Press Association

Radek Sikorski, Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs has described Thatcher’s fight against Communism as a “moral inspiration”

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Pope Francis at St Paul Outside the Walls yesterday (AP)

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King Herod is undergoing an odd reinvention

Herodium, the desert site of King Herod's fortress and palace, where his tomb was found in 2007 (Photo: CNS)

Curators of a blockbuster exhibition have sought to sanitise his reputation

A funeral should not resemble an episode of This is Your Life

Baroness Thatcher's funeral will be held next week  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

We have forgotten what this ceremony is about

I knew I was going to have trouble with two popes; when we pray for the ‘Holy Father’, it’s still Benedict I think of. Fathers don’t resign: they just get old

Pope Benedict XVI conducting one of his weekly general audiences (AP)

And I really can’t be doing with all this “emeritus” stuff. He’s still simply Pope Benedict to me

The Iron Lady reminds me of pontiffs past and present

Baroness Thatcher (Photo: PA)

Margaret Thatcher had her critics, Pope Francis can expect to have his too

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The Pope Emeritus and Pope Francis at Castel Gandolfo on March 23 (AP)

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Pope Francis arrives in St Peter's Square for this morning's general audience (AP)

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