Westminster Abbey is a centuries-old church located in London, England. The church was first founded and constructed in the 11th century. This original church, however, was mostly deconstructed and rebuilt in the style of Gothic architecture at the behest of King Henry III in 1245. Since that...
If you've been baptized in a Catholic church, as I was, the church counts you as a member for life even if you stop attending. The only way to have this reversed is toformally defect, notifying the bishop of your local diocese that you've left the church. Can you excommunicate yourself?
Massachusetts was founded by Puritan dissenters who traveled to American in order to escape religious persecution in England. Puritans wished to shed all vestiges of Catholicism from their religion and were, therefore, at odds with the Church of England....
I love museums and recently was saddened to hear about the closure of a local museum. I became interested in learning more about how museums operate and how they are funded. Today museums are an important part of many people’s travel experiences. They have become some of the most popular ...
But given their general ignorance about the sex industry and the people working in it, what prompted non-sex worker allies to become involved in the process of law reform, and what was the nature of their contributions? Getting Involved and Taking a Role: NGO’s and Non-party Political Alli...
The Hermitage, a small monastery at the summit of this mountain, is to this day still shrouded in mystique. Father Jerome built the Hermitage and the rock staircase leading to it as a final act of religious dedication. An Anglican seminarian turned Catholic priest, Father Jerome was well know...
Christmas, with its pagan roots, was especially unacceptable. Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded in 1630 by a group of Puritan refugees from England, followed this example. According to a law passed in 1659, “whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either ...
St. James was founded in 1797, as the first Anglican Church in York, as Toronto was then called. Its gothic style and its 300-foot spire make it a Toronto landmark. In the tower, a fully automated clock triggers the 10 church bells, which ring on the quarter hour. Directly across ...
In the late 1950s, women across the US might think things like: my husband is a bit selfish; I wish I could have an interesting job and make decent money myself; I was a fool I should have worked harder at college, but I didn’t see the point at the time; I’m not even sure...
It's not God who wants to use you; it's the Catholic church and to boot, they want to keep you living like it's still the Dark Ages. They called them “dark” for a reason. It's because social oppression of a variety of flavors was perpetrated primarily due to the link between ...