Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spend two weeks studying the event, "more surprising, as it was, than anything else on the continent." He consciously imitated Edward Gibbon on the steps of the Expo's Administration Building -- but where Gibbon, sitting on the steps of Rome's Aracoeli church, had a vision of the falling Roman Empire, Adams saw a rising empire. Another visitor to the fair, historian Frederick Jackson Turner, delivered a famous paper there, saying that the internal frontier was closed; but America would, by the end of the decade, add to its dominion Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, Samoa and Wake Island...
BOSTON--The Roman Catholic Church's top prelate in Massachusetts has condemned an abortion rights bill filed by Gov. William F. Weld, saying it would create "a culture of death" in the state...
...rare news conference at his residence, Law read a statement on behalf of himself as archbishop of Boston and on behalf of the bishops of the state's three other Roman Catholic dioceses...
...bishops of the four Roman Catholic dioceses in Massachusetts, we wish to state publicly our total and vigorous opposition to this devastating initiative that seeks to make Massachusetts the Commonwealth of death for the innocent," Law said...
While Weld is an Episcopalian, Cellucci is a Catholic. Last spring, the Catholic Church prohibited Cellucci's Roman Catholic high school in Hudson from having him as its graduation speaker because of Cellucci's pro-choice stance...