Electing the New Pope The Catholic cardinals gathered in Rome began Friday‚ the secret election‚ or conclave‚ to elect a new pope next Tuesday afternoon‚ the Vatican said the 115 cardinal-electors taking part in the conclave will enter the closed-door process after a morning Mass. Only cardinals younger than 80 are eligible to vote. Some cardinals took to the Internet to make comments before Friday afternoon’s meeting that set the conclave date. Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana‚ viewed as one of
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Pope Francis talked about the different kinds of Christians who follow their faith in a confused way‚ and he compared those who are inactive or do not move forward can be considered as “mummified” Christians. On Tuesday‚ Pope Francis’ homily at the morning mass held at the Santa Marta residence focused on how some Christians forget the Jesus is the only way to life. The pontiff discussed the four kinds of Christians who get distracted from their journey of faith‚ according to the Vatican Radio. Pope
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19 March 2013 Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and Election of Pope Francis The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Pope Francis are getting to be a pretty big deal around the world. Pope Benedict XVI was born under the name Joseph Ratzinger on April 16‚ 1927 in Marktl am Inn‚ Bavaria Germany. He grew up under war and reparation from World War I. He was briefly a member of the Hitler Youth in his early teenage years. He turned to theology studies after the war. His father was
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COURSE 5: The Issue of Bad Writing in Swift and Pope The eighteenth century witnessed a major revolution‚ in some ways more profound than the Civil War‚ the Printing Trade. It was a state of anarchy within which struggling writers‚ who came from the lower strata‚ were writing in journals‚ newspapers‚ magazines etc. Great consumption of these kinds of writings led to the formation of the Grub Street (a London Street inhabited by literary hacks such as writers of small histories‚ dictionaries and
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the Holy Lands. This brought great anger to Pope Urban II. Pope Urban II was responsible for the very first Christian Crusade. He started this by giving an extremely influential speech to all Christians in Europe and Medieval time saying that the Saracens were turning Christian Churches into Mosques which were Muslim churches. Pope Urban II then told all Christian men and European Christian Princes to go on a crusade to take back the Holy lands. The Pope also stated to these Christian men that by
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The Pope was the title give to the head of the church‚ to which he was changed with the religious care taking of the clergy and other believers. For military aid and expansion‚ early popes looked to medieval kings like Clovis of the Franks‚ but by the time of Charlemagne’s coronation by Pope Leo III‚ it became questionable whether the pope or the king was the higher authority. After the fall of the Roman Empire‚ Europe was decentralized with the development of feudalism‚ and this allowed the only
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he had enforced since his title of archbishop‚ the new Pope has begun to change everything that the Vatican had promoted. His name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio and he claims the title as the "first Latin American pope‚ the first Jesuit pope‚ the first in more than a thousand years not to have been born in Europe‚ and the first to take the moniker Francis‚" (Draper 36). But the appearance of the pope is not the only thing he has changed. In fact pope Francis does not want to be looked upon as a leader of
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Rape of the LOcke Rape of the lock : At the beginning of "The Rape of the Lock‚" Pope identifies the work as a “heroi-comical poem.” Today‚ the poem—and others like it—is referred to as a mock-epic and sometimes as a mock-heroic. Such a work parodies the serious‚ elevated style of the classical epic poem—such as The Iliad or The Odyssey‚ by Homer—to poke fun at human follies. Thus‚ a mock-epic is a type of satire; it treats petty humans or insignificant occurrences as if they were extraordinary
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Christianity in Essay on Man Alexander Pope is an eighteenth century writer who spent most of his life suffering. He had a rare form of tuberculosis which left him in constant pain. As a result of this disease‚ he never grew very tall. He was only about four and a half feet tall and he also experienced migraines (Greenblatt 2714). Despite all of Pope’s impediments‚ he managed to write Essay on Man which portrays an extremely optimistic outlook on life. Although Pope says that he “avoids all specifically
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William Pope Duval William Pope Duval‚ lawyer and congressman‚ the son of William and Anne (Pope) Duval‚ was born at Mount Comfort‚ Virginia in 1784. In 1804 he married Nancy Hynes and was admitted in to the bar that same year. On May 1821‚ President Monroe appointed Duval as a federal judge in the Eastern district of the Florida Territory. That is where his legacy in the Florida history begins. From 1822 -1834‚ Duval served as the first territorial Governor of the territory of Florida. In those
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