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...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...to wear the red hat of the Catholic Church....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...It was a different story by 1529, if we are to trust a report filed to London by Sir Nicholas Carew and Richard Sampson, two English envoys who travelled to Bologna for Charles V’s coronation as Holy Roman...
...Pell is the most senior Roman Catholic Church official to have been convicted of child sex abuse....
...Appointed to clean up the Roman Catholic Church’s finances, the case has undermined Pope Francis’s efforts to draw a line under sexual abuse scandals....
...She assembled a formidable “family values” grass roots movement, backed by her Roman Catholic church and other denominations already incensed by the 1973 Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision legalising abortion...
...Luther was excommunicated by Pope Leo X, then outlawed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, at the Diet of Worms....
...Slovenia’s powerful catholic church has adopted a low profile role in the campaign, cowed by a financial scandal in which investment funds tied to the archdiocese of Maribor collapsed, losing an estimated...
...In the old Roman Catholic faith, the year was shaped around high days and holy days, saint’s day after saint’s day: different memories for different kinds of sanctity and martyrdom....
...The ever-hungry Ottomans, the new cartographies discovered by Vasco de Gama, and the League of Cambrai, which saw France, the papacy and Maximilian ally Venice, stripped the latter of both territory and...
...The Roman Catholic Church is no stranger to financial troubles....
...the true meaning of the term Catholic – universal.”...
...Cardinal Joseph Tobin, of Indianapolis, told The Criterion, his archdiocese’s newspaper, last month: “My experience is that there’s a lot of goodness in the Roman Curia, a lot of people who are very devout...
...Cardinal TIMOTHY MICHAEL DOLAN, US The 63-year-old archbishop of New York is highly respected among his fellow prelates and serves as the elected president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops....
...Elmore John Leonard was born on October 11 1925 into a Roman Catholic family in New Orleans. His father was employed by General Motors and his work soon brought them to the company’s home town....
...Benedict XVI abdicated as pope on Thursday, clearing the way for a conclave of cardinals to pick a successor tasked with guiding the Roman Catholic Church through the maze of controversies that accumulated...
...Benedict’s successor, to be chosen at a conclave of 115 cardinals who will convene in the Sistine Chapel in about two weeks’ time, will inherit a Roman Catholic Church shaken by child abuse scandals and...
...Likewise many of the world’s 1.2bn Roman Catholics will feel a certain discomfort about Benedict’s decision, which, even though he had clearly given it careful consideration, came as a bolt from the blue...
...The news that Pope Benedict XVI is stepping down at the end of February has taken many people by surprise, but the Code of Canon Law (the Catholic Church’s collection of rules and procedures) does allow...
...Holy week devotions Pope Francis I washes the feet of 12 priests at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican during a Chrism mass marking Maundy Thursday as the Roman Catholic church builds up to Easter Sunday...
...(He was court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.) By his death in 1576 he was the most important artist in Europe, yet we know very little about him other than his preoccupation with money....
...Selections by Tom Robbins … FOOD Treme: Stories and Recipes from the Heart of New Orleans, by Lolis Eric Elie, Chronicle, RRP£18.99 / $29.95 This collection of recipes from US chefs, many working in...
...Painted on the cusp of the 16th century, just after Savonarola had rocked Catholic Italy with his graphic prophesies of divine punishment, Signorelli’s unbridled melodrama of fire-breathing devils, terrified...
...“For the Catholic church it is impossible to appoint a bishop if the Pope does not want him,” he said....
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