Now the Saints, the city’s other great devotion, had come to the Church’s aid. A civil suit filed against the archdiocese by a former altar boy in October 2018 had uncovered hundreds of emails that allegedly show executives from the Catholic-named NFL team working with local Church officia...
How did the Catholic Church influence Baroque architecture? How were Renaissance ideals reflected in the arts? Which artist was the main inspiration for other Baroque artists? What techniques did Renaissance artists use in artworks? Did Peter Paul Rubens invent the Baroque style?
Similarly, Peter the Great of Russia undertook massive administrative reforms to modernize the Russian state. His introduction of the Table of Ranks, which allowed commoners to rise through the ranks of the civil service based on merit rather than birth, helped break the stranglehold of...
Context: When King Henry VIII of England (r. 1485-1509) sought an annulment from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. he was met with opposition from the Catholic Church. Unable to secure an heir, Henry had also become involved with one of his wife's attendants, Anne Bo...
No announcement of this appeared in the newspapers. On the tenth of April following, the whole neighborhood, including Great Smith Street, Marsham Street, Great and Little Peter Streets, Regent Street, Horseferry Road, and Strutton Ground, was convulsed by the report that a woman named Ginx ...
The other large power, the Byzantine Empire, was also at a decline, having made a deal with the Catholic Church at the Council of Florence in 1439; one the Russians did not approve of. In 1453 they were sacked by the Crusaders, ending their reign once and for all. The downfall of ...
...2 Peter 2:1-3Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. / Many will follow in their depravity, ...
Did Peter the Great abolish serfdom? Did Oscar Wilde believe in God? Does Philip Zimbardo work at Stanford? Did Frederick the Great believe in divine right? Did Heraclitus believe change was fundamentally random? Did John Locke believe in divine right? Was John Milton a Christian? Did Oliver ...
Translates to “So Passes the Glory of the World”,Sic Transit Gloria Mundihas roots in Catholic theology. When a new Pope is elected, he is paraded around St. Peter’s Basilica for his followers to see. During this procession, he is stopped 3 times by 3 Bishops, each one holding a ...
Wasserstein and his co-head of investment banking, Joseph Perella, had been waging a turf battle with CEO Peter Buchanan and the other traders who dominated the firm. Beat back, the two rebels abruptly left First Boston to form Wasserstein Perella & Co., taking a clutch of First Boston ...