Peter's and then deliver the traditional Angelus blessing, said Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi.

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Their examples of fulfilment and violence contend with more traditional ones, like that of his father, a widower who spends his life in joyless service to the state and retires to an ashram in the former French colony of Pondicherry, there to renounce the snares of this world.

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It has been traditional in England for children to take their father's name and so Professor Sykes and colleague Catherine Irven looked at the Y chromosome, which fathers pass to sons but not daughters.

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The only traditional element was that I was expected to marry who my father chose for me.

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If this is true, it has to do with the fact that although stereotypical gender roles for women have changed, with more men staying home to raise the kids as mom brings home the bacon and father cooks it, societal expectations for mothers remain rooted firmly in the traditional.

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