Word: rome
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...English Puritans who settled Massachusetts and established their capital seat at Boston were not known for their solicitude towards the Bishop of Rome. Themselves heirs of the English Reformation, their memories of the Papacy and the Marian persecutions were annotated by the standard work found in all of their libraries, John Fox's Acts and Monuments, commonly called The Book of Martyrs. First published in 1563 in English, The Book of Martyrs with its vivid, even lurid accounts of the sufferings unto death of Protestant martyrs at the hands of the Church of Rome and Bloody Mary served to remind...
...detecting and convicting and exposing the idolatry of the Roman Church, their tyranny, usurpations, damnable heresies, fatal errors, abominable superstitions, and other crying wickednesses in their high places; and finally, to show that the Church of Rome is that mystical Babylon, that woman of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament...
...view of New England towards Rome was changing towards the close of the last century, partly because of contact with the enormous numbers of Catholics coming into the city of Boston, Rome's view of American Catholicism was in a state of transition too. Though American Catholics celebrated the centenary of their organization in America in 1889, Rome continued to regard them as little more than missionaries in a backward country It was not until 1892 that the first apostolic delegation was sent to Washington. The ardent Protestantism of the founders of New England and the periodic outbursts of anti...
...both Poland and Rome are coming to Boston--the times they are a-changing...
...ROME--Police yesterday apprehended Prospero Gallinari, a founder of the Red Brigades and the alleged organizer of the abduction and kiling of former Premier Aldo Moro...