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...But although she lived at the Roman College of the Holy Cross, an Opus Dei seminary, she was not there to study. She was to cook and clean for the 200 men who were....
...later canonised Saint Charles; and the interventions it underwent at the hands of Piero Portaluppi, the pre-eminent architect of the city’s 20th-century golden age....
...Likewise Poland’s former communist regime put four security policemen in the dock for the 1984 murder of Jerzy Popieluszko, an opposition Roman Catholic priest....
...Luther was excommunicated by Pope Leo X, then outlawed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, at the Diet of Worms....
...The remedy was for Catholics to purify their souls and persecution of the Veneto’s long-established Jewish population was often suggested as a method....
...This vision foretold the imminent destruction of Rome and the reign of the saints....
...On Sunday, for the first time since 1972, a memorial mass was held in Dublin’s Roman Catholic pro-Cathedral, where the homily was delivered by the city’s archbishop, Diarmuid Martin....
...Borromeo deserves more credit for inventing the confessional, and giving penitents the protection of the same anonymity that organisations such as the Samaritans prize so highly today....
...Or rather one should say the Roman Catholic Church, since it is at the Vatican that he directs his mildly expressed yet damning accusations....
...Charles van der Voort from Leiden now works with the designers Paul Deckers and Aad van Uffelen for the best possible display. Not all members of the floral team are Catholics....
...“There’s been a pretty steady decline in knowledge of the subjects.” he adds, “even educated Roman Catholics are ignorant of the lives of saints and won’t be able to tell you what the immaculate conception...
...(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....
...Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins, Jonathan Cape, RRP£20 Higgins drives a blue camper van around Britain seeking out the ruins of Roman civilisation....
...Following a shaky start to his tenure, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales could lay claim to being Britain’s most visible spiritual leader over the past 12 months – almost...
...Resentful of foreign influence, Bohemian nationalists flocked to the Protestant cause but, after centuries of bloody battles, the Catholic Church and Holy Roman empire finally stamped out resistance....
...And since the Orthodox Church is organised more along national lines than the Roman Catholic Church, there is frequent dispute among the patriarchy....
...As Charles R. Morris noted in his history of American Catholicism, this meant that "the vast majority of Catholic married couples …stand on the wrong side of the abyss, with Hitler and Pol Pot"....
...Saints and sinners There was plenty of controversy surrounding the beatification on Sunday of the Charles I, the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, who ruled from 1916-18....
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