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18 Jul 2017, 12:50 pm by Margaret Wood
  It was this Parliament that passed the laws formalizing the break with Rome and the transfer of power over the church and religion to Henry who became Supreme Head of the Church in England. [read post]
16 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm by Ronald D. Rotunda
Theodora is also a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 1:44 pm by Cathy
I walked just a bit past the Stalinist monstrosity, behind a church, and to the only synagogue in Warsaw to survive the war. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The Pope wasn’t buying the argument for annulment, and wouldn’t recognize divorce, but Henry was undeterred, and ended up getting excommunicated from the Church of Rome. [read post]
1 Jul 2017, 5:35 pm by Tom Smith
Rome (CNN)Pope Francis is replacing the Catholic Church's conservative chief of doctrine, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, amid apparent tensions over the Pope's efforts to open up church teaching and tackle a series of sex abuse scandals. [read post]
4 May 2017, 2:47 pm
President Trump on Thursday said he would direct the Internal Revenue Service to relax enforcement of rules barring tax-exempt churches from participating in politics as part of a much-anticipated executive order on religious liberties.The order... also offers unspecified “regulatory relief” for religious objectors to an Obama administration mandate... that required contraception services as part of health plans. [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 11:00 pm
But as I foreshadowed in many posts here long ago, the tocsin is now sounding the passing of the Church of England; its days as a single denomination are numbered. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 6:50 am by Eugene Volokh and Geoffrey Stone
Although Greece and Rome punished seditious, blasphemous and heretical expression, they did not punish expression because it was “obscene. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 2:51 pm by Tom Smith
He views some of it as a form “spiritual worldliness” which runs at odds to his vision of a “last shall be first” servant Church. [read post]
21 Oct 2016, 4:43 am by Howard Friedman
This would end a 60-year dispute over the authority of the Vatican in which the Chinese Communist Party has appointed bishops who often are not recognized by Rome while an underground Catholic Church continues to be loyal to the Vatican. [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 6:34 pm by Tom Smith
” A group of Church of England clergy wrote in a letter in The Sunday Times last month that they wanted to eventually see homosexual couples allowed to "marry" in church. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 10:47 am by Janine P. Geske
  The facility moved to Rome in 2015, spotlighting and advancing the Church’s resolve to address the issue globally. [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 6:15 am by Marty Lederman
” On February 25, 1964, just nine days after the Beatles’ second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, Cassius Clay, Olympic gold medalist at the 1960 Games in Rome, won the world heavyweight boxing title by upsetting Sonny Liston in Miami Beach. [read post]
21 Feb 2016, 4:00 pm by Old Fox
An embassy, with the earl of Wiltshire at its head, was dispatched to Rome in 1530, and Cranmer was an important member of it. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 12:40 pm by Dorothy Makaza
Mr Rwabukombe, a Hutu, was sentenced to life in prison for his participation in an attack on a church which had been housing Tutsi refugees during the 1994 genocide. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Wine was also banned from official receptions.VIS reports that Rouhani also met in the Vatican with Pope Francis:During the cordial discussions, common spiritual values emerged and reference was made to the good state of relations between the Holy See and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the life of the Church in the country and the action of the Holy See to favour the promotion of the dignity of the human person and religious freedom. [read post]
24 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
I begin this paper in Late Republican Rome with the adoption by the praetors of the cause of action for setting aside inofficious wills (the querela inofficiosi testamenti) and the enforcement of the Lex Falcidia, the statute establishing the forced share at one-quarter of the estate. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 12:13 pm by Michelle O'Neil
” By 700’s the Catholic Church, and Italy, disavowed divorce. [read post]
17 Nov 2015, 10:17 am by Tom Smith
They all would still hate us if Church attendance went up by 100 percent. [read post]