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...that love and jealousy are two sides of the same emotional coin. This lesson appears in the history of Valentine's Day itself. The legend of St. Valentine reads that an early Christian bishop was imprisoned and executed for marrying young couples in violation of a decree by the Roman Emperor Claudius. Claudius believed that marriage was preventing his young soldiers from being adequately militaristic. He was a jealous husband, demanding his soldiers' hearts in their entirety, construing a loyalty to their lovers as a betrayal of his army...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Editor's Notebook: Love is Not a Box of Chocolates | 2/14/2001 | See Source »

...employing Reverend Graham so much in the inaugural ceremony, more so than in past years," says Susan Brunka '03, a Roman Catholic, "President Bush necessarily excluded a large part of the population that does not adhere to that religion. I thought it was an even more polarizing move than his presidential race had been up to that point...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Taking God Out of Government | 2/9/2001 | See Source »

...Noted "No one, for any reason, can kill in the name of God." POPE JOHN PAUL II, in a New Year's sermon in the Vatican, marking the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 1/14/2001 | See Source »

...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” (History...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating The System | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

...looks like a huge brown traffic cone. Inside, the pews are semicircular in shape, radiating from the center like wooden ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. In the 1800s, despite the supression of Afro-Brazilian religions, followers of such faiths would secretly worship West African deities during Roman Catholic rites. For example, someone might act as if they were praying to the Virgin Mary when they were really praying to Iemanja, the goddess of the sea. The tour guide doesn't tell us any of this. She does point out that Sao Sabastiao translates as "Saint Sebastian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock and Redemption in Rio | 1/11/2001 | See Source »

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