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....
.../ From R Victor Bernstein, New York, NY, US...
...“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...
...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....
...A balding Roman with dark-rimmed glasses and a penchant for jokes, Benanti was born in Trastevere, a neighbourhood on the west bank of the River Tiber, just south of the Vatican....
...The Ottomans believed that their advance into Europe meant that they were the inheritors of Byzantium and should therefore be considered the new Romans....
...The case before the Supreme Court was brought by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and two Orthodox Jewish congregations....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...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...
...Known as an outlet for New York’s Roman Catholic working class population, most of its sales came from the city’s outer boroughs, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island....
...Explaining his visit, the Maronite patriarch said that because the leader of the Roman Catholic communion was going to the Holy Land and Jerusalem – a diocese of the Maronite church – “it’s normal that the...
...The Roman Catholic Church is no stranger to financial troubles....
...The stop-gap nature of the pope’s response to the furore in Germany did not appease those who had been calling for the bishop’s dismissal in a country where Roman Catholics pay part of their income tax to...
...When he was appointed as the 266th successor to St Peter on March 13, the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church appeared to be in dire trouble....
...Pope Francis, the new Roman Catholic pontiff who has appealed for his church to be both “poor and for the poor”, is to be asked to intervene in a growing scandal surrounding a German bishop who has spent...
...Pope Francis, who has called for the Roman Catholic Church to be “poor and for the poor”, intervened in response to appeals by German congregations concerned at alleged mishandling of funds by Church institutions...
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