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«Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.»
Author: Lance Morrow
(Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Catholic, Catholic Church, roman, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, the 13th century, The Roman Catholic Church, The Vatican, Vatican
«The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist ; virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It's still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.»
Author: William Friedkin
(Film Director, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Angeles, Big cities, Big City, Cardinals, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, demons, depiction, drive out, embraced, endorse, endorsed, exorcism, exorcist, exorcists, promoted, represents, ritual, roman, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Roman world, showed, The Cardinals, The Catholic, The Roman Catholic Church, virtually
«The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
magistrate, modes, prevailed, roman, Roman world, The Philosopher, various
«The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
Catholic, conveniences, frame of mind, just now, mediaeval, picturesqueness, roman, Roman Catholic
«The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
crowned, deceased, Empire, ghost, papacy, roman, Roman Empire, thereof, The Grave
«Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.»
«This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.»
«The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
Empire, historical, historical period, roman, Roman Empire, sixties
«This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashion, and clothed with ivy from base to summit, as with a shirt of scale mail.»
«This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
agglomeration, Holy Roman Empire, roman, Roman Empire
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