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The New Liturgical Movement (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
I thought some of you would enjoy a few quick images from a Solemn Requiem Mass that was offered in Ss. Trinita, Rome just yesterday evening. And finally, a little view of the sacristy prior to the Mass:
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
The decline and fall of the American Empire echoes the experience of the Romans, who also tumbled into the trap of becoming overleveraged empire hussies.
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2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | yesterday
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- Rome -- Imperial and Renaissance -- seems to have been on the minds of architects and planners of Washington, D.C. and many state capitals in the United States. Domes, columns, pilasters and other Classical details abound. Ottawa, Canada's capital, took a different architectural route. Perhaps it was a slackening interest in classically-inspired styles such...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yes, the meme is just getting started it seems. 1938Media does his own take of the Team Cyprus video , set to the tune of AC/DC's HighWay To Hell:
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Modern Mechanix (Free subscription) | yesterday
view additional pages Model of Rome Took Thirty Years to Build After more than thirty years of work, a French architect, Paul Bigot, has completed a stupendous task, the building of an accurate relief map of Rome as it was about the fourth century, A.D., when the city was at the peak of its power. At that [...]
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NPT Media Update (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Southern Festival of Books started today at War Memorial Plaza, which means plenty of great writers in town for John Seigenthaler to interview on A Word on Words. These include David Maraniss, journalist, historian and author of four critically acclaimed and bestselling books: When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, First in [...]
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Egypt State Information Service Minister of Tourism Zoheir Garana, left Cairo Wednesday8/10/2008 for Rome to represent Egypt in the tourism committee meetings of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), to open on Thursday and run for three days. Egypt is going to have an observer seat at the meetings for the first time in appreciation of its standing on the world tourism map...
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View From The Porch (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
- Gary , Indiana Gary, Ind iana Gary, Indi an a Where the fix is in !
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was drafted and adopted in Rome, Italy, on July 17, 1998. It entered into force on July 1, 2002 after having been ratified by sixty countries.
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Bankers, workers and small-business owners in places such as Rome and Paris worry about the future, especially for the younger generation. Like most people these days, the pasta maker gets bombarded by the media heralds of doom.
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biblicalia (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Mike Aquilina recently mentioned this new piece of historical fiction written by Michael E. Giesler, Grain of Wheat (Scepter Publishers, 2008). The book is the third in a trilogy following the lives of several Christians in the mid to late second century city of Rome, from the end of Hadrian’s reign into that of Antoninus Pius. [...]
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Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
The news that Blessed Alphonsa will be canonized by his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in Rome on October 12, 2008 has been received by the Catholics of India with boundless joy. She is the first Indian woman to be raised to the honours of the altar. ...
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Couples for Christ Solomon Islands (Free subscription) | yesterday
ZENIT The World Seen From Rome Daily dispatch - October 11, 2008 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Making Homilies Effective Human Dignity Isn't Elitist US Annulments Worth Every Penny Plenty of Milk and Honey Stewardship Is Solution Letters to the Editors Making Homilies Effective A response to: Ideas for Better Sermons Emerge at Synod Hans Urs von Balthasar never tired of saying that theology should be done...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
ROME -- The condition of an Italian woman at the center of a right-to-die case worsened after she suffered a massive hemorrhage, doctors said Saturday.
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fashionmagus | 10/09/2008
The former “Baywatch” babe was spotted in Rome,Italy to promote her latest movie Disaster Movie.The sexy actress was not afraid to show off her assets while over seas, she wore a very revealing red mini dress to the movie’s premiere.I love, love looooove her whole look!
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artdaily | 08/06/2008
ROME.- Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has touched up a copy of an Italian masterpiece painting because too much breast was exposed. The woman's chest has been hidden with a veil in Tiepolo's Time Unveiling Truth - which stands behind Berlusconi during media briefings - in case it distracts cameras. “Perhaps the Prime Minister’s staff feared that the attention of journalists was being drawn
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legionofmarduk | 04/22/2008
Latin sails have nothing to do with Rome, Latium or the Latin tongue; "Latin" comes from "Lateen", a kind of triangular sail first seen by merchants and travelers on Arab and Oriental vessels during the early Age of Exploration, which was propmtly copied ad adapted as a balance enhancer to the multiple square sailings of European ships...