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How to Use the Bishop in Chess
Howcast - Learn how to use the bishop in chess from Chess NYC in this Howcast video.
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Germany’s Romantic Road – Journey Through Centuries of History
Germany’s Romantic Road offers a journey through thousands of years of history, featuring world-famous cities, fortresses, and palaces from Würzburg to Neuschwanstein Castle. Highlights include the Baroque town of Würzburg, Rothenburg ob...
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Macedonia, Heracles Lencestis - Chiristian basilicas
Heraclea Lyncestis was an ancient Macedonian city situated 2 km south of the present-day town of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. It was founded by Philip II of Macedon in the middle of the 4th century BC, after he had conquered the...
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Macedonia, Heracles Lyncetis ancient city
Heraclea Lyncestis was an ancient Macedonian city situated 2 km south of the present-day town of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. It was founded by Philip II of Macedon in the middle of the 4th century BC, after he had conquered the...
Religion for Breakfast
Why is Christmas on December 25th?
Everyone assumes that early Church authorities chose December 25th for Christmas to coincide with the already popular Roman holiday of Saturnalia. This may have some basis in reality, but there is another theory: That Christians believed...
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Catherine of Aragon banished from court
This video covers what happened to Catherine of Aragon
Religion for Breakfast
The Gnostic Gospels: Were They Illegal?
A common theory is that the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of Gnostic texts, were an illegal stash of books hidden from Orthodox Christian authorities. But recent scholarship has called this theory into question. Were the Gnostic...
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The Vatican's Secret Deal with China - Is The Catholic Church Being Paid to Stay Quiet? - TLDR News
In 2018 the Vatican and the Communist Party of China signed a deal ostensibly to try and make life easier for Chinese Catholics. Since then though it's been alleged that the Catholic Church has allowed the CCP to take over Catholocism in...
The March of Time
Dominican, Pope Pius XII audience
MOT 1940: DOMINICAN ORDER: INT Chapel of Santa Sabina w/ friars walking. VATICAN AUDIENCE: Pope Pius XII walking into room sitting in gilded chair speaking to people in small room (no SOT) gesturing w/ hand. INT BASILICA: People kneeling...
OverSimplified
The War of the Bucket
The War of the Bucket - A war in Medieval Italy that started over the theft of a bucket...or did it?
Religion for Breakfast
How Did the New Testament Form?
In this episode we examine the topic: How Did the New Testament Form?
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Italy, Venice - Torcello Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta
The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a basilica church on the island of Torcello, Venice, northern Italy. It is a notable example of Venetian-Byzantine architecture, one of the most ancient...
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Amazon Catholic bishops propose allowing married priests
Pope Francis will consider the reccommendations and report back by the end of the year.
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Pope leads four-day summit into sexual abuse in Catholic Church
An extraordinary summit on the issue of sexual abuse against minors within the Catholic Church opens today in the Vatican. Pope Francis will be joined by bishops from around the world, Vatican officials, and heads of male and female...
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Pope Francis condemns priestly sexual abuse
Pope Francis condemned priestly sexual abuse and its cover-up by the Catholic Church, in a public letter. In addition to demanding accountability, Francis begged forgiveness for the pain suffered by victims and said Catholics must be...
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Catholic bishops offer no clarity on residential school apology
Catholic bishops weren't able to offer any clarity on a potential apology for the church's role in Canada's residential schools. During a news conference, the bishops appeared to try and distance the church from its ties to the schools....
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Anglicans allow same-sex marriage after vote recount
Passing the resolution required two-thirds of each of three orders — lay, clergy and bishops.
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Pope apologizes for using homophobic slur
Pope Francis has issued a rare apology, for using a slur for gay men, during a closed-door meeting with bishops at the Vatican.
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Breaking down Quebec's revised tuition plan and what key players are saying
While the province is reducing its tuition hike for out-of-province Canadian students, it's adding a French requirement that one university is calling 'devastating.'
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Students protest Quebec out-of-province tuition hike
Hundreds of students from McGill, Concordia and Bishop’s universities protest Quebec’s decision to nearly double tuition fees for out-of-province students. The fees are targeted at English-language universities and will begin next fall.
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A year after the Pope's visit, Indigenous people frustrated by slow church action
Indigenous people in Canada are disappointed by what they say is delayed action from the Catholic Church one year after Pope Francis visited Canada and apologized for the church's role in residential schools.
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What’s unfinished after Pope’s visit to Canada
Despite the Pope’s apology to residential school survivors, and his use of the word genocide to describe what happened in the institutions, some Indigenous people say there’s still work to be done. One of the loudest calls has been for...
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Why these Papal talks feel different from years past
Former Keeseekoose First Nation chief Ted Quewezance and Regina Archbishop Don Bolan explain why recent reconciliation talks with Pope Francis feel different than similar discussions held in 2009 with Pope Benedict, and how the Catholic...
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Young Poles turning away from the Church amid sex abuse scandals
The leader of Poland's Roman Catholics has admitted his church faces a devastating decline as young Poles turn away from the church in huge numbers.