Norwich's Catholic Cathedral was begun, not as a cathedral at all, but as a church for Norwich's Catholic community. The date was 1882 and the patron was Henry Howard, the 15th Duke of Norfolk, head of the Norfolk Howards, one of the most powerful Catholic families in England. Howard h...
III. CHURCHES AND OTHER MONUMENTS IV. UNIVERSITY OF ROME Rome.—The significance of Rome lies primarily in the fact that it is the city of the pope. The Bishop of Rome, as the successor of St. Peter, is the Vicar of Christ on earth and the visible head of the Catholic Church. Rome...
The case was simply that there were a number of persons determined not to demand mere toleration for themselves, but to pluck down what they called idolatry everywhere and to keep the Edwardine service in the parish churches in defiance of all authority, and even of the feelings of their ...
Malcolm X learned to debate as a 20-something in what was then called Norfolk Prison Colony, a state prison founded on reformist ideals that fielded debate teams against local colleges such as Boston University. In his memoir, X describes the experience of finding one’s voice and communing w...
Several churches held their final mass this past weekend as the "Seek the City to Come" plan unfolds. The Archdiocese's plan includes reducing the number of parishes from 61 to 30 worship sites by December 1. Archdiocese leaders said the plan adjusts to the decline in population, ...
Nicephorus Callistus (A.D. 1300) relates that the Empress Helena built a church in honor of St. Elias on the slopes of a certain mountain. This evidence is, however, inadmissible, inasmuch as Eusebius is witness to the fact that she built only two churches in the Holy Land, at ...