International Pope Francis has died BREAKING - New Pope Elected - American Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes Pope Leo the XIVth
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American Augustinian Era: Restoration of Aura.
He's pretty awesome.
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25 years ago today Martin O'Neill parted company with Leicester and came to Celtic... the rest as they say is History ☘⚽☘⚽ xxxx Babs
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Not as good as the Kaaba that was made by Abraham magically.
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Catholicity.
I'm kinda jelly of the former Hezbollah leader.
Roman Catholicism | Definition, Religion, Beliefs, History, & Facts | Britannica
Roman Catholicism is a Christian religion that has been the decisive spiritual force in the history of Western civilization. Along with Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, it is one of the three major branches of Christianity. It is led by the pope, as the bishop of Rome, and the Holy See forms...
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Roman Catholicism, Christian religion that has been the decisive spiritual force in the history of Western civilization. Along with Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, it is one of the three major branches of Christianity. It is led by Pope Leo XIV, as the bishop of Rome, and the Holy See forms the church’s central government, making decisions on issues of faith and morality for the some 1.4 billion Catholics throughout the world.
The Roman Catholic Church traces its history to Jesus Christ and the Apostles. Over the course of centuries, it developed a highly sophisticated theology and an elaborate organizational structure headed by the papacy, the oldest continuing absolute monarchy in the world. The number of Roman Catholics in the world is greater than that of nearly all other religious traditions. There are more Roman Catholics than all other Christians combined and more Roman Catholics than all Buddhists or Hindus. Although there are more Muslims than Roman Catholics, the number of Roman Catholics is greater than that of the individual traditions of Sunni and Shiʿi Islam.
These incontestable statistical and historical facts suggest that some understanding of Roman Catholicism—its history, its institutional structure, its beliefs and practices, and its place in the world—is an indispensable component of cultural literacy, regardless of how one may individually answer the ultimate questions of life and death and faith. Without a grasp of what Roman Catholicism is, it is difficult to make historical sense of the Middle Ages, intellectual sense of the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, literary sense of The Divine Comedy of Dante, artistic sense of the Gothic cathedrals, or musical sense of many of the compositions of Haydn and Mozart.
At least in an inchoate form, all the elements of catholicity—doctrine, authority, universality—are evident in the New Testament. The Acts of the Apostles begins with a depiction of the demoralized band of the disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem, but by the end of its account of the first decades, the Christian community has developed some nascent criteria for determining the difference between authentic (apostolic) and inauthentic teaching and behavior. It has also moved beyond the geographic borders of Judaism, as the dramatic sentence of the closing chapter announces: “And thus we came to Rome” (Acts 28:14).
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This is just beyond magnificent.
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Raphael was truly GOAT level in his own right as a painter. To know those frescoes were being executed at the exact same time Michelangelo was down the stairs and across the hall over in the Sistine Chapel going to work on the ceiling is mind-boggling. And it's about the only thing that could exceed and overshadow them.
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why are they calling him pope leo?
why not just pope bob perv, pope bob, bob pope, or bob the pope? i don't get where the leo part comes from. he was born in september, he ain't even a leo!
why not just pope bob perv, pope bob, bob pope, or bob the pope? i don't get where the leo part comes from. he was born in september, he ain't even a leo!
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The Other, OTHER Masterpiece.
The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. Cardinal Giulio de Medici – who later became Pope Clement VII (1523–1534) – commissioned the work. Raphael worked on it in the years preceding his death in 1520. The painting exemplifies Raphael's development as an artist and the culmination of his career. Unusual for a depiction of the Transfiguration of Jesus in Christian art, the subject is combined with the next episode from the Gospels (the healing of a possessed boy) in the lower part of the painting. From the late 16th century until the early 20th century, various commentators regarded it as the most famous oil painting in the world. The work is now in the primary art gallery of Mvsei Vaticani in Vatican City.
Cardinal Giulio de Medici, cousin to Pope Leo X, was also the Pope's vice-chancellor and chief advisor. He commissioned two paintings for the cathedral of Narbonne, The Transfiguration of Christ from Raphael and The Raising of Lazarus from Sebastiano del Piombo. With Michelangelo providing drawings for the latter work, Medici was rekindling the rivalry initiated a decade earlier between Raphael and Michelangelo in the Stanze and Sistine Chapel. In December 1516, Michelangelo was in Rome to discuss with Pope Leo X and Cardinal Medici the facade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence. During this meeting, he was confronted with the commission of The Raising of Lazarus and it was here that he agreed to provide drawings for the endeavor, but not to execute the painting himself.
The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. Cardinal Giulio de Medici – who later became Pope Clement VII (1523–1534) – commissioned the work. Raphael worked on it in the years preceding his death in 1520. The painting exemplifies Raphael's development as an artist and the culmination of his career. Unusual for a depiction of the Transfiguration of Jesus in Christian art, the subject is combined with the next episode from the Gospels (the healing of a possessed boy) in the lower part of the painting. From the late 16th century until the early 20th century, various commentators regarded it as the most famous oil painting in the world. The work is now in the primary art gallery of Mvsei Vaticani in Vatican City.
Cardinal Giulio de Medici, cousin to Pope Leo X, was also the Pope's vice-chancellor and chief advisor. He commissioned two paintings for the cathedral of Narbonne, The Transfiguration of Christ from Raphael and The Raising of Lazarus from Sebastiano del Piombo. With Michelangelo providing drawings for the latter work, Medici was rekindling the rivalry initiated a decade earlier between Raphael and Michelangelo in the Stanze and Sistine Chapel. In December 1516, Michelangelo was in Rome to discuss with Pope Leo X and Cardinal Medici the facade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence. During this meeting, he was confronted with the commission of The Raising of Lazarus and it was here that he agreed to provide drawings for the endeavor, but not to execute the painting himself.
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Catholic bishops sue Washington state over law requiring clergy to report child abuse
The Trump administration has launched an investigation into the law, calling it "anti-Catholic." The bishops say it would force them to break their oaths.
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Should religious leaders also be mandatory reporters? The Catholic Church says no.
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This is going to be a thing forever
next he's going to autograph air jordans and bigmacs
the soft punishment for being an american pope
next he's going to autograph air jordans and bigmacs
the soft punishment for being an american pope
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This is going to be a thing forever
next he's going to autograph air jordans and bigmacs
the soft punishment for being an american pope
He seems to be enjoying himself. Francis and Benedict XVI were just so fucking old even at the start of their tenures, and it showed. Leo will travel to Barcelona next year to celebrate the completion of Sagrada Familia: It is 144 years in the making, going back to 1882. The Last of the Greats.
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Yeah, Francis recently declared Gaudi "venerable", which is the first step towards sainthood, which gives a lot of encouragement to people that never finish what they start.
Architect Antoni Gaudí on path to sainthood, Pope confirms
The Spanish architect was a devout Catholic and is best known for Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica.
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Yeah, Francis recently declared Gaudi "venerable", which is the first step towards sainthood, which gives a lot of encouragement to people that never finish what they start.
Architect Antoni Gaudí on path to sainthood, Pope confirms
The Spanish architect was a devout Catholic and is best known for Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica.
That's pretty much been the historical norm for the greatest architectural jewels in the church's portfolio. The cathedrals of Chartes (1126-1252), Notre-Dame (1163-1345), Siena (1196-1348), Milan (1386-1965), and Seville (1402-1519) all come to mind. Saint Peter's Basilica itself was built over the course of 120 years from 1506 to 1626. Hell, the Cologne Cathedral ultimately took well over six fucking centuries. Nobody who was there at the design and groundbreaking stage ever lived to see them completed. All of them are examples of some of the greatest cultural heritage to be found anywhere on the planet.
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Context: It's a Villanova University hat, his alma mater.
Villanova University is a private Catholic research university in Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded by the Order of Saint Augustine in 1842 and named after Saint Thomas of Villanova. The university is the oldest Catholic university in Pennsylvania and one of two Augustinian institutions of higher learning in the United States (the other being Merrimack College). For more than a decade, Villanova University had been ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report in the Best Masters Universities category, a ranking for schools that offer undergraduate and masters programs but few doctoral programs. In a deliberate move to classify itself as a national university, Villanova pushed in 2010s to expand its doctoral programs to reach the Carnegie threshold of 20 PhDs per year.
Busy Day. Also met with Javier Milei.
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Context: It's a Villanova University hat, his alma mater.
Villanova University is a private Catholic research university in Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded by the Order of Saint Augustine in 1842 and named after Saint Thomas of Villanova. The university is the oldest Catholic university in Pennsylvania and one of two Augustinian institutions of higher learning in the United States (the other being Merrimack College). For more than a decade, Villanova University had been ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report in the Best Masters Universities category, a ranking for schools that offer undergraduate and masters programs but few doctoral programs. In a deliberate move to classify itself as a national university, Villanova pushed in 2010s to expand its doctoral programs to reach the Carnegie threshold of 20 PhDs per year.
Busy Day. Also met with Javier Milei.
It makes a lot of difference that he's a younger guy. you can see it in the energy and engagement levels, Benedict and Francis simply couldn't do that anymore even at the start of their mandate.
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Francis had some great moments and was very friendly, but way too fragile. It's just bad optics, and sucks to see a guy having to slow walk with a cane or getting pushed around in a wheelchair. He was also something of a security liability, lol.
