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8 Oct 2014, 5:15 pm by Tom Smith
Although monogamy was established in the legal codes of Greece and Rome and reinforced by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, it was well known that other cultures — mostly Islam in the Middle East — did not acknowledge it.This became uncomfortably clear as European explorers pushed out among the tribes of Africa, the South Seas, and the American Plains, revealing that the practice of polygamy was almost universal outside the Christian West. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 11:24 am
The substance of the law at any given time pretty nearly [2] corresponds, so far as it goes, with what is then understood to be convenient; but its form and machinery, and the degree to which it is able to work out desired results, depend very much upon its past.In Massachusetts today, while, on the one hand, there are a great many rules which are quite sufficiently accounted for by their manifest good sense, on the other, there are some which can only be understood by reference to the infancy of… [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 1:29 pm by Steve Lubet
  And Shipman certainly would never hold Christians responsible for the repeated attacks by gunmen on Coptic churches in Egypt. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 7:14 pm
The barbarian nations which we have subjugated know our valour, Africa and other provinces without number being once more, after so long an interval, reduced beneath the sway of Rome by victories granted by Heaven, and themselves bearing witness to our dominion. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 7:09 am by Margaret Wood
  Reams of paper have been devoted to analyzing what happened, when and who did what, but at the end of day, Henry broke from Rome and established the Church of England, of which he was the head, and Thomas Cranmer, as archbishop of Canterbury, declared his first marriage invalid. [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 12:41 pm by Howard Knopf
(emphasis added).We now know the date that the new regime will take effect – which will be August 13, 2014.As for the Statement Limiting the Right to Equitable Remuneration of Certain Rome Convention or WPPT Countries, see here.Since the tariff only goes to the end of 2012 and we are now into 2014, it’s not clear what this will mean to Pandora, which is still not operating. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 9:06 am
In ancient Rome, when you went out in the rain, you would “repluviare” yourself. [read post]
26 Jan 2014, 10:47 am
 He intended to and reportedly did "sack" Rome, even if that sacking included the burning of only one church. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 8:30 am by Raffaela Wakeman
A bomb also exploded near a French church in Rome today,  just hours before a meeting between Pope Francis and French President Francois Hollande. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 1:11 pm by Margaret Peachy
Between his professorship and involvement with Christ Church of Cambridge, he held a fair amount of sway in the community and would give public lectures from time to time. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 5:00 am by Doug Cornelius
Peter’s church in Rome, so people would neglect the Peter tax in order to have money to pay the Paul tax. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 10:35 pm
No, the primacy of Rome's Church rests entirely upon St. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 8:50 am by Margaret Wood
Selected Translations, 500-1245 (New Haven-London, 1998) Brian Edwin Ferme, Introduzione alla storia delle fonti del diritto canonico (Rome, 1998) Luciano Musselli, Storia del diritto canonico. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 1:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The Arch of Titus is an honorific arch in Rome constructed in c. 82 AD by the Roman Emperor Domitian shortly after the death of his older brother Titus. [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
As previously reported, when convicted Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke died in Italy last week, the Vatican prohibited any church in Rome from celebrating a funeral mass for him. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 10:06 am by Howard Friedman
 Pope Francis' vicar for Rome, Cardinal Agostino Vallini, has prohibited any church in Rome from celebrating a funeral mass for Priebke. [read post]
21 Sep 2013, 11:22 am
Indeed, it positively misleads the reader, because as so happens, the Task Force on Re-imagining the Church had just issued its first report on its vision for the future church. [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 6:10 am
Fink may "maintain a reporter’s detachment," but the reviewer, Jason Berry (author of "Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church") gives off a whiff of enthusiasm for euthanasia. [read post]
20 Aug 2013, 1:26 pm by Charles J. Reid, Jr.
This is a lament that would have fit well in fifth-century Rome, as Huns, and Goths, and Vandals threatened the gates of the Eternal City. [read post]