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...Returning to his village, Akayezu helps “resurrect” a newborn, which enrages the church fathers further. He retreats to live in a hut in the sacred grove of Kigabiro....
...Is nothing sacred? Yes, the right to irreverence....
...In the Catholic church I meet Augustine, a member of a Latin American congregation in Sheffield who took a taxi here to pray for Ukraine (and for good exam results for his sister)....
...On our last day, we visited a lonely stone-walled church on a steep slope overlooking Międzygórze. Now Polish Catholic, the Church of the Holy Cross was once German Evangelical....
...Chagall’s windows, which he called “the transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world” were the high point of his late career....
...Growing up Catholic, I’m always drawn to the quiet drama of Advent, these four weeks of waiting that mark the beginning of the western liturgical year and lead up to the birth of Jesus....
...The church courted them by soliciting donations and even adjusting church doctrine, particularly after Kirill became patriarch in 2009. The state’s military ambitions took on sacred overtones....
...heart of the building....
...“My roots are deeply connected to religion,” says Milan-based Sicilian designer Fausto Puglisi, whose SS17 collection features studded leather crosses, crucifixes and sacred hearts....
...It has also embarked on a campaign to raise £6m to house female students and wants to buy a building from the Society of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic religious congregation for women....
...Their defence of their sacred institutions means the defence of slavery....
...He would “subscribe to the construction of such a church . . . or to a church dedicated to the Sacred Heart”. There! Sacré-Cœur, 1870....
...Traditionally, Catholics had claimed there was no salvation outside the Church, with inevitable consequences in the history of violence....
...He says the Catholic Church in Poland allowed a communal memory to exist that rivalled the official version of history. “People could discover that there was another truth,” he says....
...The 14th-century church at St Monans was overflowing at his funeral: fittingly, the church was founded by King David II, son of King Robert the Bruce – Bannockburn’s victor – who is sacred to nationalists...
...The reputation of the BBC is hardly better than that of the Catholic Church, say, until the recent election of Pope Francis: that is to say, it is seen as a complacent, monstrously swollen bureaucracy, inexcusably...
...My wife, who grew up hundreds of miles away in Milwaukee, likewise remembers Mass, ham, and Bible movies as Eastertime staples....
...At the Sacred Heart church in McAllen, the county’s biggest city, a group called Catholic Charities has set up a relief centre for migrants and been inundated with donations of food, toiletries and clothes...
...households have crucifixes and images of the sacred heart; many Muslim homes display Islamic calligraphy; while Jewish households often have a menorah and a mezuzah....
...The ceiling of the parish church is held up by black wooden poles. There is a Carmelite convent with a dozen nuns in residence, and a Catholic church with a priest from Uganda....
...Most dispiriting of all is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a maze of dismal and dilapidated chapels, which feels utterly unworthy of its sacred charge....
...Issues of marriage, divorce, succession, the supremacy of the monarch over the Church, and foreign antagonisms, not least with Spain, would be responsible for the schism between England and Catholic Europe...
...Yet Wisden has mastered the Catholic Church’s skill (indeed, of late, it has managed it rather better) in giving its random accretions of tradition an aura of holiness: the ex-cathedra Notes; the sacred...
...It’s what 32 per cent of Americans believe, according to Gallup, and is in essence the official view of the Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant churches....
...Dahl grew up in a Christian household in Minnesota. He went to church regularly. At university, he studied religion and philosophy, then went on to get a graduate degree in theology....
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