Word: catholicism
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It was an astonishingly successful faith. St. Augustine was a Manichaean before converting to orthodox Christianity. Horrified Christian bishops would use the word Manichaean as a catch-all invective for all satanic heresies. Indeed, long after the Manichaean Church ceased to exist in the West, the Inquisition was established to...
In fact, in several states, Common Cause and N.A.A.C.P. chapters are fighting gambling alongside restaurant associations, bowling alleys, video arcades, theme parks and racetracks that fear losing business to casinos. Nonetheless, NCALG's main foot soldiers are so-called traditional-values and pro-family activists. In Louisiana this week Southern...
ONE REASON FOR THE DECLINE IN THE influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is the craven unwillingness of the church hierarchy to denounce and excommunicate members of the I.R.A. and its supporters. If the hottest spots in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral...
DIED. JOHN CARDINAL KROL, 85, archbishop; in Philadelphia. During his 27 years of leading the nation's sixth largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, the Polish-American prelate was an opponent of abortion and nuclear weapons, a master builder of some 100 churches and a player in Vatican politics, where he was...
It won't wash. Although the roots of Buchananism as a political philosophy are varied--from Theodore Roosevelt to Catholic theology to the America First movement of the 1930s--the roots of Buchananism as a popular phenomenon lie much closer to home. Republican politicians who are looking for someone to...