17 September 2015, The Tablet

‘Disrupter’ to stay in Hugh Grant’s house


 
Rolling Stone, the magazine that launched Hunter S. Thompson’s career, has celebrated many rebels in its time. Now it has hailed Pope Francis as a powerful “disrupter” in a profile ahead of his visit to the US next week. The magazine reveals that the Pope originally hoped to enter the country via Mexico, as a show of solidarity with immigrants. “The idea was ultimately nixed because of logistical and scheduling difficulties,” writes Mark Binelli. While in New York, Pope Francis will stay in a stately 19th-century home that once belonged to Hugh Grant – not the British actor best known for Four Weddings and a Funeral, but a prominent Catholic and mayor of New York from 1889 to 1892, pictured left. Grant’s heirs left the building to Church, and it i
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