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...into a seminary library, and it's hard to find scholarly books on apocalyptic theology; academics tend to treat this tradition as sociology. They see End Times interest rising and falling on waves of cataclysm and calm. Masses of people became convinced the end was nigh when Rome was sacked in 410, when the Black Death wiped out one-third of the population of 14th century Europe, when the tectonic shudders of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 caused church bells to ring as far away as England, and certainly after 1945, when for the first time human beings harnessed...
Among the courses offered are College favorites “Constructing the Samurai,” taught by Professor of Japanese History Harold Bolitho, and Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature R.J. Tarrant’s “The Rome of Augustus...
...more somber note, she added, “As Aeneas to Rome, as Moses to the Promised Land, as John Harvard to the blessed banks of the Charles, so you are called to the path of truth...
...allusions suggested that the search for truth is difficult—Moses died before entering the Promised Land, Aeneas was not able to found Rome and Harvard died of tuberculosis less than a year after landing in Charlestown...
...plan may also face trouble in Rome. Dallas Bishop Joseph Galante, one of the drafters of the document, predicts that "if they offer any changes, it will just be tweaking." But a canon-law expert close to the Vatican says some there perceive a "guillotine" attitude in the U.S. that sacrifices priests' rights to public opinion. It may not bode well that one of the most interested Vatican Cardinals is Dario Castrillon Hoyos, a papal contender who has hinted that the crisis is driven mostly by the American press...