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Turning back the clock

No man knows the time or hour? Not if you're a Roman Catholic priest. Punctuality and efficiency are watchwords at many workplaces, but clocking in and out is now usually the preserve of factory shift workers. At the Vatican, however, officials have decided to reintroduce the system more than 50 years after it was last phased out.

New hi-tech swipe cards have been issued to all 2,000 employees in the city state, but Third Way understands that lay staff have been rather ...

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