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20 Diplomatic Connivance At the earliest stages of any deep change in international affairs, there is a time-honored practice that governs the behavior of the great powers of the world. ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-23 | Author:John Thavis

CHAPTER SIX LATINIST THE SWISS GUARD paced back and forth along a section of the covered loggia, down the hall from the pope’s apartment. His heels ticked against cipollino marble, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Jon M. Sweeney [Sweeney, Jon M.]

12 RIDING ON AN ASS After the papal election of 1294, when the Church authorities came for him, Peter, by then eighty-four years old, must have thought that he would ...

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12 RIDING ON AN ASS After the papal election of 1294, when the Church authorities came for him, Peter, by then eighty-four years old, must have thought that he would ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Eamon Duffy [Duffy, Eamon]

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epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Gerald Posner [Posner, Gerald]

* * * I. In 2001, Del Ponte had worked a genocide investigation against four Rwandans, two of them Catholic priests, one living under a false name in Italy and ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Pope Francis

143. The challenge of an inculturated preaching consists in proclaiming a synthesis, not ideas or detached values. Where your synthesis is, there lies your heart. The difference between enlightening people ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:David I. Kertzer [Kertzer, David I.]

13. The Pope's Body A FEW DAYS BEFORE he was elected pope, Gioacchino Pecci, in his role as chamberlain, called in the dead pontiff's relatives for a reading of his ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-08 | Author:Paul L. Williams

THE RAID'S RESULTS The raid at Arezzo produced another devastating result: the loss of power for the Christian Democrats in Italy. Since 1947, the CIA had bolstered the party with ...

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Who says “lady” says harm. Who says “woman” says misfortune. Who says Olimpia Maidalchini Says lady, harm, ruin.12 On one occasion Pasquino quipped: “The Roman people are dying of hunger,” ...

azw3 |eng | 1997-09-02 | Author:Thinley Norbu

ATHEISM The Pope says: Buddhism is in large measure an atheistic system. (p. 86) Atheism means not believing in God, or more generally, not having any spiritual view. The Pope ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

After his dazzling performance, the new abbot of Bobbio accompanied the emperor and Archbishop Adalbero to Rome. There, at an Easter synod, Gerbert saw his Catalan friend Miro Bonfill, bishop ...

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New York, November 20, 1938 LaFarge’s magazine, America, condemned Kristallnacht in a sharp editorial. “Germany, once counted among the civilized nations, has put herself beyond the pale. . . . ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-24 | Author:Alexander Hislop [Hislop, Alexander]

Section III. The Sacrifice of the Mass If baptismal regeneration, the initiating ordinance of Rome, and justification by works, be both Chaldean, the principle embodied in the "unbloody sacrifice" of ...