History: Connecting the Dots between Politics and Religion http://xcatholic.yuku.com/forums/69 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:21:02 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://xcatholic.yuku.com/forums/69 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ 31 October: The Birth of the Reformation ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/7097/t/31-October-The-Birth-of-the-Reformation.html

For years Luther had been plagued by a fundamental question: What can sinful man expect from God's justice? Luther longed for God's mercy but feared His condemnation. How could he please a God who was angry with him, and how could he escape His vengeance? The church had prescribed the way of meticulous confession and the performance of works, pilgrimages to sacred shrines and prayers before the relics of saints. Several intimate experiences drove Luther to desperation, and he... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/7097 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:43:29 GMT <![CDATA[ Kenneth C. Davis - Dont Know Much About History (2003) ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6761/t/Kenneth-C-Davis-Dont-Know-Much-About-History-2003-.html Kenneth C. Davis - Dont Know Much About History... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6761 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:36:27 GMT <![CDATA[ Paraguay Jesuit reducciones ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6710/t/Paraguay-Jesuit-reducciones.html Paraguay Jesuit reducciones - Google Search

1. The Jesuit Missions (reducciones) in South America. Argentina ...

"The Jesuit Missions ( feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6710 Wed, 27 May 2009 16:39:40 GMT <![CDATA[ Suppression of the Jesuits ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6708/t/Suppression-of-the-Jesuits.html The Suppression of the Jesuits in Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6708 Wed, 27 May 2009 06:38:08 GMT <![CDATA[ The history of the Papal States By John Miley ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6660/t/The-history-of-the-Papal-States-By-John-Miley.html

The history of the Papal States

By John Miley
]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6660 Tue, 12 May 2009 05:54:26 GMT <![CDATA[ Chile, General Pinochet and the Vatican ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6503/t/Chile-General-Pinochet-and-the-Vatican.html

Since seizing power in Chile with the coup d'état against President Salvador Allende, General Pinochet has tirelessly sought the support of the Vatican for his military regime, claiming as credentials his Catholic faith and his crusade against Marxism, in complete harmony with John Paul II, who is also an anti-Marxist.

After the setback with the plebiscite of October 1988, which forced him to give up... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6503 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:33:37 GMT <![CDATA[ Land O' Lakes Conference and American Catholic higher education ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6489/t/Land-O-39-Lakes-Conference--American-Catholic-higher-educati.html

Land O' Lakes Conference and Statement


The statement, drawn up and signed by a group of Catholic educators led by feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6489 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:59:02 GMT <![CDATA[ Dutch East India Company and the China Opium/Heroin Trade ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6480/t/Dutch-East-India-Company-and-the-China-Opium-Heroin-Trade.html 8.
Of establishing an unlawful enterprise for the purpose of crime: (1602) That the Jesuit order and its business supporters did form the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company ( Dutch East India Company). That the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6480 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:44:26 GMT <![CDATA[ The Black Death (1347-1350) ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6476/t/The-Black-Death-1347-1350-.html A scapegoat was needed since anger and frustration had to be focused. And Europe was full of scapegoats. On charges that they had poisoned the water with the "intent to kill and destroy all of Christendom," the extermination of European Jews began in the spring of 1348. Jews from Narbonne and Carcassone in France, were dragged from their homes and thrown into bonfires. It was commonly accepted that the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6476 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:22:54 GMT <![CDATA[ Fado, Fatima and Football: the rest of the story ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6432/t/Fado-Fatima-and-Football-the-rest-of-the-story.html Fatima became a battleground between the Catholic Church and the Freemasons who were gaining political influence at the time. Many Catholics felt persecuted, while secularists suspected the visions as an attempt by the Church to regain control. The local authorities detained the children at one point so they could not attend the site of the apparitions - and even threatened them with boiling in oil unless they... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6432 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:14:27 GMT <![CDATA[ The Concordat of 1801: Napoleon Bonaparte Makes a Deal With Pope Pius VII ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6365/t/-Concordat--1801-Napoleon-Bonaparte-Makes--Deal--Pope-Pius-V.html

In order to consolidate power, Napoleon and Pope Pius VII sign the Concordat of 1801, giving Napoleon power over choosing Catholic Clergy.

France had always been a predominantly Catholic country. Even... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6365 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:15:44 GMT <![CDATA[ Was Peter ever in Rome? ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6270/t/Was-Peter-ever-in-Rome-.html Ferdinand C. Baur of Tübingen, applying a Hegelian model to his study of early Christianity, suggested that the book of Acts outlined a progressive process whereby Petrine Christianity was challenged and replaced by Pauline Christianity, from which Roman Christianity developed. Hence Peter had been sidelined and there was no need for him to have been in Rome or to be seen as the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6270 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:03:03 GMT <![CDATA[ Serb Butcher caught ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6224/t/Serb-Butcher-caught.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/

They finally got him! ]]> feeds@yuku.com (erika22) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6224 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:25:38 GMT <![CDATA[ HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS THANK POPE ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6201/t/HOLOCAUST-SURVIVORS-THANK-POPE.html http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-22852


]]> feeds@yuku.com (erika22) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6201 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:51:58 GMT <![CDATA[ German Catholics Admit to Wartime Forced Labor ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6169/t/German-Catholics-Admit-to-Wartime-Forced-Labor.html

The Roman Catholic Church in Germany reported on Tuesday that almost 6,000 people were used as forced labor in Catholic facilities during World War II.

The report by the German Catholic... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6169 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:51:03 GMT <![CDATA[ The History of Syphilis ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6125/t/The-History-of-Syphilis.html In Rome, towards the end of the '400, clandestines excluding, were available approximately 6800 prostitutes.

In Venice the prostitutes were forced to walk with a yellow handkerchief around the neck like sign of acknowledgment.

It was the sexual abstinence that the Church adopted as a remedy in order to avoid such disease and Pope Paul IV, around to the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6125 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:39:00 GMT <![CDATA[ Barack Obama, Messiah or Antichrist? ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6105/t/Barack-Obama-Messiah-or-Antichrist-.html By William Lowther in Washington

Last Updated: 4:24pm GMT 23/02/2008

For many it is simply a sign of his charisma. But for a growing number of Barack Obama sceptics, there is something demoniacally disturbing about the adulation with which the senator and Democratic presidential frontrunner is greeted as he campaigns for the White House - unnervingly... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (MaricoG) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6105 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:03:42 GMT <![CDATA[ The Hundred Years War [1337-1453] ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6093/t/The-Hundred-Years-War-1337-1453-.html This is part one of a documentary on the Hundred Years War between England and France.



]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6093 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:54:23 GMT <![CDATA[ Barbarians - The Vikings ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6088/t/Barbarians-The-Vikings.html
Barbarians - The Vikings 1/5



]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6088 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:28:51 GMT <![CDATA[ Barbarians: The Goths ]]> http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6087/t/Barbarians-The-Goths.html Terrorized by the savage raids of the Huns, the Goths make a desperate bid for safety into what they hope will be the protective embrace of the Roman Empire.
However, this proves to be a bitter and costly mistake, as the Goths are forced into squalid concentration camps along the imperial borders.
They are degraded and starved by the Roman officers, their children sold... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sid2) http://xcatholic.yuku.com/topic/6087 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:54:55 GMT