SYNOD OF BISHOPS: JUSTICE IN THE WORLD The word synod comes from the Greek word –“ synodos” meaning "assembly" or "meeting"‚ and it is synonymous with the Latin word concilium — "council". Originally synods were meetings of bishops‚ and the word is still used in that sense in Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. the term "Synod of Bishops" or "Synod of the Bishops"‚is also applied to a permanent body established in 1965 as an advisory body of the Pope. While an assembly of the Synod of Bishops thus
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the Liturgy. John XXIII reaffirmed the importance of the Scripture and Jesus by translating the Bible from Latin into the vernacular as outlined in the Vatican Document Dei Verbum. This was also combined with changes to the Liturgy as outlined in Sacrosanctum Concillium which included reconnecting the liturgy to the people by translating the liturgy into the vernacular as well. Translating from Latin in the language of the people demonstrated that the faith adapted to its global expansion and responded
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Ancient Rome had two recognized classes of people living amongst the populace‚ the patricians and the plebeians. A patrician was described as a person of nobility or someone of noble origin. They had wealth‚ influence and political power over the plebeians. The plebeians were the commoners of the time‚ simple farmers and workers who considered second-class citizens and could not be part of the political system. While at first they were united to get rid of the Kings‚ thing quickly got sour
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13MOZAIK13-bel.qxd 11/25/04 12:18 PM Page 7 On the same Track? MOZAIK 2004/1 Sören A S M U S The Conquest of Latin America: Europe and the External Other It has taken a long time to realise how the respective peoples perceived the encounter between people from Europe and people from Latin America. Enrique DUSSEL describes the process of encounter between the European conquistadores and the indigenous people of the Americas from a European point of view in six forms: Invention
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England‚ to find money to pay and equip an English army to defend England. His means of raising revenue without Parliament were critically short of being able to achieve this. It was against this backdrop and according to advice from the Magnum Concilium (the House of Lords‚ but without the British House of Commons‚ so not a Parliament)‚ that Charles finally bowed to pressure and summoned Parliament for November. The new Parliament was worse than the first. A law was passed which stated that a new
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2. THE LEGION MUST DIRECT ITSELF TO THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL “We must not allow the crowded altar-rails at the morning’s Mass to blind us to the existence of horrible contrasts: entire families where things are wrong‚ or even whole neighbourhoods corrupted and abominable‚ where evil is‚ as it were‚ enthroned with its court all around it. Second‚ we should remember that although sin is in such places congested and doubly repulsive‚ it is none the less vile where it is more spread out. Third‚ though
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enterprises." The senate was already a powerful body in Rome’s government‚ these events‚ however greatly increased its power. Constitutionally‚ the senate was an advisory body; the Lex Hortensia‚ passed in 287‚ gave the power to make decisions to the Concilium Plebus. In practice‚ however‚ the senate was the governing body of Rome and it ruled unchallenged throughout the second century. This power was obtained through its successful control over Rome’s wars of expansion. In fact‚ the crisis caused by the
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english). Rome: Gregorianum‚ March 7‚ 1914. Yatiswarananda‚ Swami. Meditation and Spiritual Life. Bangalore India: The President Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama‚ 1979. Duquoc‚ Christian and Florestan‚ Casiano. Asking and Thanking. Philadelphia‚ Pa: Stitching Concilium and SCM Press. 1990. Pourrat‚ S.SP. Christian Spirituality. Westminister‚ Md: Newman. 1953
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Introduction The Patricians and Plebeians were inhabitants of the Roman state‚ yet each enjoyed completely different privileges. The Patricians descended from the old Roman families‚ who were the original inhabitants of Rome and were therefore superior in terms of the authority they possessed and the power they wielded. The Plebeians on the other hand were Roman subjects. People who were not members of the old Roman families‚ and therefore had no say in governmental affairs. The Plebeians had come
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Tiberius and his brother Gaius Gracchus were to be two men who should become famous‚ if not infamous‚ for their struggle for the lower classes of Rome. They themselves though originated from Rome’s very elite. Their father was a consul and military commander and their mother was from the distinguished patrician family of the Scipios. At the death of her husband she even turned down a marriage proposal by the king of Egypt. Tiberius Gracchus was an officer in the Third Punic was he is said to have
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