Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A faded image of a body, splashes of blood. A scrap of cloth that may attest both Passion and Resurrection. The Roman Catholic hierarchy in this northwestern Italian city, renowned for its auto industry--and, well, for this--estimates that 3 million people will line up in the next eight...
It certainly released a new wave of fascination, both popular and scientific. In the 100 years following Pia's epiphany, the cloth has been removed from its silver casket not just for the public but also to several waves of scientific observers. The trend's high point occurred in 1978...
The decision by the factions in the North promises to bring an end to the most recent epoch of killing, which began 30 years ago and has taken the lives of 3,249 people, including 16 killed in the past few weeks as the talks inched toward success. Ten times...
Manned by James Carroll, Boston Globe columnist and former Catholic Priest; Rabbi Sanford Seltzer of Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline; Christoph Wolff, celebrated Bach scholar and Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; and Stephan Jay Gould, a self-proclaimed "agnostic Jew" and Harvard professor of paleontology, the...
In terms of human rights Cahill pointed to what he called historic oppression of the Catholic Irish majority by the Protestant minority and the British government. Specifically, he pointed to the Orange Order, a Protestant loyalist group which marches each Easter to commemorate along-ago victory over the Catholics, as...