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After the deadly terror attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, a restaurant owner in Portland (Maine not Oregon) wanted to do something “outside the box” in order to solve the problem of “gun violence” in America.So she wrote a post on Facebook.Anne Verrill, owner of two Portland-area restaurants, wrote on Facebook that anyone who owns—or even supports an individual’s right to own—an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, may “no longer enter either of my restaurants, because the only thing I want to teach my children is love.”The post was deleted after a bunch of people on the internet who like guns...

HAD Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills sat down at the kitchen table and made a pact to strip Charles and Diana of the prize for messiest divorce since the reign of Henry VIII, they could not have contrived so much unpleasantness. Last week the couple, who passed the buck for their break-up to the media, were doing their utmost to ensure breaking stories about the intercepting of royal phone messages and the uncovering of a plot to wage terror on a scale exceeding 9/11 did not oust their misery from the news pages. And what lengths they had to...

Pope tells Rabbi of Church's love for Jews Pope Benedict XVI talked of the Church's love for the Jewish people when he received the chief rabbi of Rome in audience. Zenit reports that "Shalom!" was the greeting the Pope expressed on Monday when welcoming Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni and a Jewish delegation, on the eve of Italy's national day to further Catholic-Jewish dialogue. "The Catholic Church is close to you and is your friend," the Holy Father told the rabbi. "Yes, we love you and cannot but love you, 'through the Fathers.'" Benedict XVI said: "We cannot fail to denounce...