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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...
60 Second Histories
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...
TLDR News
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?
Curated Video
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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Pope apologizes after being quoted using vulgar term to describe gay people
Pope Francis used the homophobic slur while reaffirming the Vatican's ban on allowing gay men to enter seminaries and be ordained priests. (Scripps News)
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RR7108B ITALY: THE DIVORCE CONTROVERSY
1. Map of Italy.
2. File film scenes inside Referendum headquarters, where people record their signatures, inside court.
3. Interview with Liberal Party leader Giovanni Malagodi.
4. Rome street scenes featuring women.
5. Interview...
Curated Video
IRELAND: COUNT BEGINS ON DIVORCE REFERENDUM BALLOT
English/Nat
The Irish Republic on Saturday morning begins counting the votes cast in the referendum on whether to permit divorce.
The results are expected to be close and both sides continue to maintain they could win the vote.
If a...
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US Bishop Gregory newser on Catholic sex abuse policy
1. Bishop Wilton Gregory, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, enters news conference and sits down
2. Priest listening
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bishop Wilton Gregory, Head of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops:
"The Holy See...
Bloomberg
Unity as the Path to Victory Against Islamic State
Nov. 16 -- In today's "Morning Must Read," Bloomberg’s Tom Keene and Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait recap the op-ed pieces and analyst notes providing insight behind today's headlines on "Bloomberg Surveillance.â€
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Universal Newsreel: Church Congress
STORY
6 200 UN 40-85 b&w sound
Universal Newsreel 1967
SHOWS
12:50:56 Pope Paul VI in St Peter's Basilica for special mass for Senate of Bishops & World Congress of...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Catholic lawyers in Zimbabwe urge government to respect human rights
The Catholic Lawyers Guild in Zimbabwe calls on the government to respect human rights amidst the arrest and incarceration of a prominent journalist and an opposition leader (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Curated Video
Pope Benedict XVI summoned his bishops from across Latin America to Brazil's holiest landmark on Sunday to enlist their help in keeping Catholicism the dominant religious force in the region.
<HEADLINE: Pope summons bishops to stem church's decline
CAPTION: Pope Benedict XVI summoned his bishops from across Latin America to Brazil's most holy landmark on Sunday. (May 13)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
Pope Benedict has summoned his...
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Vatican officials react to new pro-Vatican bishop ordained in China
1. Wide of traffic with St. Peter's in background
2. Cupola of St. Peter's
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bernardo Cervellera, Director of Asia News:
"It is a new sign of cooperation between China and the Holy See about the nomination of...
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Interview with top US bishop on child abuse scandal
1. Exterior North American College Rome
2. Bishop Wilton Daniel Gregory enters
3. Cutaway journalists
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bishop Wilton Daniel Gregory
"We bishops will always have the deepest regret for those who were abused and...
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7636C CATHOLICISM: A SPLIT IN THE CHURCH?
10 mins 21 secs (English synch: 1 min 42 secs)
The Roman Catholic church is undergoing an internal
dispute, the worst since the Reformation and it
started in France. Bishop Marcel Lefebvre former
Archbishop of Dakar, celebrated the...
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Chile abuse victim arrives at Vatican for meeting with Pope
The key whistleblower in Chile's clerical sex abuse scandal has arrived in Rome for his audience with Pope Francis and said Tuesday he will urge the pope to get rid of the "toxic" bishops and cardinals who have defamed and discredited...