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Gregory the Great But know further that it has come to our ears concerning him, that he has given money on usury; which thing you ought to enquire into thoroughly, and, if it is so, elect another, and without delay hold yourselves aloof from a person of this kind. For we will on no account […]
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Christopher Columbus was, and still is, an icon among Italians and Italian Americans. Part of the reverence for this explorer is his Catholicism which drove him to convert the American natives. Contrasting the Catholic esteem for Columbus was the Ku Klux Klan, who chose Leif Erikson as their sea-faring icon. Erikson, who discovered America several […]
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Richard Matheson’s haunted house novel begins with a commission from a dying Rolf Rudolph Deutsch, a wealthy man determined to acquire conclusive evidence of whether the soul survives death. He offered $100,000 to Dr. Lionel Barrett, a level-headed physicist and parapsychologist, to investigate the now deserted house once owned by Emeric Belasco. If Barrett could […]
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Persia was a land that has known dualism. The ancient Iranian religion, Zoroastrianism, posited, according to W. B. Henning, “that the world had been created by a good and an evil spirit of equal power, who set up to spoil the good work.”[1] In the third century, Manichaeism developed from this thought of a cosmic […]
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Relating to the filioque debate is how the three persons of the Trinity are to be contrasted while each maintaining uniqueness. Many Eastern Orthodox today are of the opinion that the logical origins of the persons are sufficient for preserving the individual hypostases. Resorting to ‘relations of opposition,’ that is, differentiating the relations of each […]
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There are several traditions of Muhammad’s final words contained in Islamic religious documents.[1] Sahih al-Bukhari relates: When the disease of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) got aggravated, he covered his face with a Khamisa, but when he became short of breath, he would remove it from his face and say, “It is like that! May Allah curse […]
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In the various sources of NFP, there are a plurality of terms used to denote the reason where NFP may be licit. E. Christian Brugger, who teaches at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, Colorado, says that “The Latin term ‘iustae causae’ is sometimes translated ‘well grounded reasons,’ sometimes ‘serious motives’, and sometimes ‘grave […]
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Whole Foods, the grocery store chain owned by Amazon, developed a heat map tool for determining which of its stores was most likely to unionize. The statement from the heatmap, published by Business Insider after receiving information from “five people with knowledge of the matter and internal documents,” explains: “The [Team Member] Relations Heatmap is […]
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The oldest Masonic lodge confirmed is the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary’s Chapel) No. 1, operating since July 31, 1599. The first Grand Lodge was the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster, which was founded on June 24, 1717. In 1884, Pope Leo XIII wrote an encyclical titled Humanum Genus, in which he stated that Freemasons […]
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Pope Leo XIII issued a letter to James Cardinal Gibbons, the Archbishop of Baltimore, in 1899. He explained his worry of novel opinions being held among those seeking to reform the Church, that is, those who hold that “the Church should shape her teachings more in accord with the spirit of the age and relax […]
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