Hints and tips:
...The Roman College is a sprawling complex of villas. Cypress and pine trees rise above tiled terracotta roofs....
...One of Asia’s most senior Roman Catholic clerics is meeting officials in Beijing, as a deal between the Vatican and China over the church’s role in the country appears to be fraying....
...The appointment in Shanghai, one of the oldest and most prosperous Catholic dioceses, is a further blow....
...a doctrinal struggle for control of the Roman Catholic Church....
...“I’m concerned that the tax cuts put forward today will not help people in communities in need in towns like Bury,” said Patrick O’Dowd, director of the charity Caritas, run by the Roman Catholic diocese...
...This takes care of approximately one half of the population, but it doesn’t deal with the men (those who aren’t Roman Catholic priests) who weigh in with pronouncing what we women should or shouldn’t do...
...De la Garza, a 66-year-old real estate broker, pointed to “family values” and “religious values” — a plurality of the district’s voters are Roman Catholic and favour tighter abortion restrictions — as well...
...But such ameliorations were also true of the Roman empire, which was succeeded by centuries of medieval darkness....
...The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Manila suspended masses for at least three weeks at the weekend as a result of rising coronavirus cases in the Philippines capital....
...In the bankruptcies of utility PG&E, various opioid manufacturers and several Catholic church dioceses, bankruptcy was used to settle ruinous personal damages claims....
...The case before the Supreme Court was brought by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and two Orthodox Jewish congregations....
...When John F Kennedy was running for US president in 1960, he addressed a group of protestant ministers in Houston, Texas, many of whom questioned whether, as a Roman Catholic, he could act independently...
...Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris, a fundraising group started by the Archbishop of Paris and the Diocese of Paris, estimated this month that 90 per cent of the donations that had been received had come from...
...On the last Friday in March, Francis prayed almost alone in a rain-sodden St Peter’s Square in front of a wooden crucifix that, Catholic tradition says, helped to staunch the Roman plague of 1522....
...Staff at Kalayaan, based in the community hall of a Roman Catholic church close to St John’s, quickly sought a “reasonable grounds” decision to enter her into the NRM....
...Another recent visitor was George P Bush, the Texas Land Commissioner and nephew of George W, who is trying to find a way of protecting Houston without angering local climate deniers....
...Recent media reports have captured the scene at a former Walmart store in Brownsville, Texas, where close to 1,500 migrant boys are being held....
...More recent heraldic representations of Columba include the arms granted in 1874 to the College of the Holy Spirit on the island of Cumbrae, and the coat-of-arms granted in 1990 to the Roman Catholic diocese...
...Yes, there are, but they cannot be over-exaggerated and used for destroying the Roman Catholic Church itself. This is what cannot be done....
...In an arena in which politics, faith and women’s rights are all conflated, the referendum represents a crossroads for a country still in thrall to the Roman Catholic church but which voted overwhelmingly...
...Then along came the great religions of our modern age, with their accompanying moralistic interference in the legal system. First, the Catholic Church banned “clandestine” marriages....
...Nearly 2,000 Roman Catholic parishes have forsaken conventional energy in favour of green electricity in 16 dioceses, the charities said....
...The Roman pillar on which she was sighted has been an object of veneration ever since. To this day, the city’s skyline is dominated by the spires and domes of its renowned twin cathedrals....
...Native Lands, by Norman Davies, Allen Lane, RRP£30 The author of The Isles (1999) tackles the subject of migration in settings ranging from Tasmania to Texas....
...For any business gurus looking for tips there was another message: organised religion — with the 2,000-year-old Roman Catholic Church in primis — is full of lessons for businesses seeking long-term survival...
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