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Using the ancient rite that's long installed the archbishops of Canterbury, Vincent Gerard Nichols was enthroned this morning at Westminster Cathedral as the eleventh primate of England and Wales since the Reformation. With the 63 year-old formally at the reins, Pope Benedict's appointees now sit in four of the English-speaking world's top six ecclesial posts. Britain's Catholic Herald has full coverage in real time, including the text of Nichols' homily, given below. * * * My brothers and sisters, I welcome you and I thank you all for coming to Westminster Cathedral today. I appreciate the presence and the...

Former College President Gene Nichol has accepted an offer to teach at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill School of Law. College spokesperson Brian Whitson released a statement from Interim College President Taylor Reveley Thursday morning, announcing that Nichol and his wife, law professor Glenn George, will return to the Chapel Hill law school faculty. Before becoming president of the College, Nichol had been the dean of the UNC law school, where George was a professor. Nichol resigned his position as College president Feb. 12, following the Board of Visitors’ decision to not renew his contract. In an interview with...

Dear Members of the William & Mary Community: I was informed by the Rector on Sunday, after our Charter Day celebrations, that my contract will not be renewed in July. Appropriately, serving the College in the wake of such a decision is beyond my imagining. Accordingly, I have advised the Rector, and announce today, effective immediately, my resignation as president of the College of William & Mary. I return to the faculty of the school of law to resume teaching and writing. I have made four decisions, or sets of decisions, during my tenure that have stirred ample controversy. First,...

Sex show at William & Mary OK'd by Nichol The university's president cites the First Amendment and academic openness in his decision. WILLIAMSBURG - The Sex Workers' Art Show will take place Monday at the College of William and Mary, after school President Gene Nichol granted students' requests for the controversial show to be held on campus. The show, which students arranged for, is scheduled for 7 and 9:30 p.m. performances in the University Center's Commonwealth Auditorium, where the show was held last year. Featuring strippers, prostitutes and other sex workers performing and discussing their work, the show is in...