| Feast of the Sacred Heart The Feast of the Sacred Heart (properly the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart or the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus) is a feast in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. It falls 19 days after Pentecost, on a Friday. The earliest possible date is 29 May, as in 1818 and 2285. Feast_of_the_Sacred_Heart
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| Saint Lucy's Day Saint Lucy's Day or the Feast of St. Lucy (Santa Lucia, Saint Lucia or sometimes Lucia for short) is the Church feast day dedicated to St. Lucy and is observed on December 13. It retains traditional forms of celebration mainly in Scandinavia, parts of the United States and southern Europe. Saint_Lucy's_Day
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| History of the Jews in Ireland The history of the Jews in Ireland extends back nearly a thousand years. Although the Jewish community has always been small in numbers (1,930 in the Republic of Ireland according to the 2006 census), it has generally been well-accepted into Irish life. History_of_the_Jews_in_Ireland
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| Christianity and slavery Talk:Christianity_and_slavery
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| Giovanni Battista Re Giovanni Battista Re (born 30 January 1934) is an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church whose service has been primarily in the Roman Curia. He currently serves as Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001. Giovanni_Battista_Re
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| Tree of Jesse Tree of Jesse refers to a passage in the Biblical Book of Isaiah which describes metaphorically the descent of the Messiah. It is accepted by Christians as pertaining to Jesus, and is often represented in art, particularly in that of the Medieval period. The earliest example dates from the 11th century.Isaiah, Chapter 11, verse 1In the Latin Vulgate Bible used in the Middle Ages this wasFlos, pl floris is Latin for flower. Tree_of_Jesse
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| Donglu Donglu (, trad. 東閭; pinyin:village in Qingyuan County, Hebei province, China. apparition of Mary, known as Our Lady of China, witnessed there in 1900, and the Marian shrine and pilgrimage site which have since developed. Donglu
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| Our Lady of China Our_Lady_of_China
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| Michael von Faulhaber Michael von Faulhaber (born March 5, 1869 in Klosterheidenfeld, Unterfranken, died June 12, 1952 in Munich) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal who was Archbishop of Munich for 35 years, from 1917 to his death in 1952. In 1916 he won the Iron Cross (as the first clergyman in the German Empire) at the Western Front for his frontline support of troops by acting close to his faithful as a military chaplain. Michael_von_Faulhaber
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| Palm Sunday Talk:Palm_Sunday
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| Robert S. McElvaine Robert S. McElvaine is Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where he has taught for thirty years. He is the author of six books and the editor of three.His essay, "One Depression, Two Remedies," serves as the introduction to the chapter on the 1930s in LifeDepression era have become standards in the field, acclaimed by historians and general readers alike. Robert_S._McElvaine
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| Holy Wednesday Christianity, Holy Wednesday (also called Spy Wednesday, and in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, Holy and Great Wednesday) is the Wednesday of the Holy Week, the week before Easter. It is followed by Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday). Holy_Wednesday
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| Catholicism and Freemasonry The Roman Catholic Church has long been an outspoken critic of Freemasonry, and has continually prohibited members from being Freemasons since In Eminenti Specula in 1738. Since the early 1700s, the Vatican has issued several papal bulls forbidding Catholics from becoming Freemasons under threat of excommunication. The Church argues that Masonic philosophy discourages Christian dogmatism, and that it is anti-clerical in intent. Catholicism_and_Freemasonry
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| Christian Order Christian Order is a British-based monthly magazine for Traditionalist Catholics which was described by John Beaumont of Fidelity magazine in 1996 as "most influential of the conservative Catholic journals in the United Kingdom".It was originally devoted to the Catholic response to social issues, taking a distributist stance sceptical of the welfare state. Christian_Order
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| Samuel George Morton Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) was an American physician and natural scientist. Morton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1820. After earning an advanced degree from Edinburgh University in Scotland, he began practice at Philadelphia in 1824. From 1839 to 1843, he was the professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania. Samuel_George_Morton
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| Hans Urs von Balthasar Hans Urs von Balthasar (12 August 1905 – 26 June 1988) was a Swiss theologian and priest who was nominated to be a cardinal of the Catholic Church. Hans_Urs_von_Balthasar
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| Cafeteria Christianity Cafeteria Christianity" is a derogatory term used by some Christians to accuse other Christian individuals or denominations of selecting which Christian doctrines they will follow, and which they will not. Cafeteria-style means to pick-and-choose, as in choosing what food to purchase from a cafeteria line. Cafeteria_Christianity
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| Exultet Exultet (also known as the Exsultet or sometimes the Easter Proclamation) is the traditional Western Rite hymn of praise intoned by the deacon during the Easter Vigil. In the absence of a deacon, it may be intoned by the priest, or by the cantor. It is intoned after the procession with the Paschal Candle before the beginning of the Liturgy of the Word. Exultet
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| Secretariat of State (Holy See) The Secretariat of State is the oldest dicastery in the Roman Curia, the government of the Roman Catholic Church. It is headed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, and performs all the political and diplomatic functions of Vatican City and the Holy See. The Secretariat is divided into two sections, the Section for General Affairs and the Section for Relations with States, known as the First Section and Second Section, respectively. Secretariat_of_State_(Holy_See)
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| Hitler's Pope Hitler's Pope is a book published in 1999 by the British journalist and author John Cornwell that examines the actions of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi era and explores the charge that he assisted in the legitimization of Hitler's Nazi regime in Germany through the pursuit of a Reichskonkordat in 1933. Hitler's_Pope
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