Word: roman
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These convulsions are the natural consequence of imperial disintegration. Sooner or later, empires have always fallen apart, and the result has always been ugly. Typically, the demise of the Holy Roman Empire in the 17th century triggered the 30 Years...
Since the mid-1980s, Roman Catholic dioceses in most American states have coped with criminal cases, lawsuits and ugly rumors concerning priests and the sexual abuse of underage boys. Angry churchgoers say that bishops often covered up the scandals, shuttling wrongdoers to new parishes, where they preyed again. Now, on the eve of a meeting of the U.S. hierarchy at Indiana's Notre Dame University, Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin has issued a 93- page report that sets a promising new standard for confronting abuse...
Mary Terese Winifred Bourke acquired her commitment to social justice from her family. The Bourkes were Roman Catholic gentry in the prosperous town of Ballina in County Mayo; both parents were doctors. Mary's grandfather, a retired lawyer, took her under his wing, describing his old cases and telling her how the law should be an instrument for social change and the protection of individuals. "Often he'd be in the process of opening a new packet of books that he'd ordered by mail. His communication was short and pithy, and often I would...
...worked in an age when, although the mechanisms of fame were becoming more centralized, it was still possible to sustain a life's work on a provincial reputation. He lived in Emilia most of his life. But Rome was the great magnet, and he almost made it to the Roman big time when his patron, the Bolognese Cardinal Alessandro Ludovisi, became Pope in 1621 and summoned Guercino to the Vatican. There he painted one enormous canvas, the Burial and Reception into Heaven of Saint Petronilla, for an altar in Saint Peter's, but the Pope died in 1623, and back...
...without adopting Jewish practices." Similarly, Rosemary Radford Ruether, a radical Catholic who teaches at a Methodist seminary in Illinois, says the church could be facing its most intense conflict in centuries. As she sees it, the choice is between "genuine transformation into an open community" and "retrenchment as a Roman sect...