Pope Francis: a man of joy and humility, or harsh and unbending? | World news. The clerical career of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the 266th Bishop of Rome, is bookended by two joyous dates. The first is 13 December 1969, the day on which the young Argentinian, on the brink of his 33rd birthday, was ordained a Jesuit priest. The second is 13 March 2013 when, at 7.06pm local time, white smoked curled into the Vatican night to confirm his surprise election as pope.
But there is a third, less celebrated, date in that career, a date that has already begun to haunt the first week of Francis's papacy from a distance of almost 40 years. On the morning of Sunday 23 May 1976, more than 100 soldiers and marines climbed out of police cars and military lorries outside a church in the Bajo Flores slum neighbourhood of southern Buenos Aires and kidnapped two Jesuit priests, Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics. The pair were held and tortured at the infamous Naval School of Mechanics for five months. Pope Francis has long denied the accusations. Other have been far more forthright. Pope Francis I. Pope Francis: 13 key facts about the new pontiff | World news. What we know about Pope Francis • He likes to travel by bus. • He has lived for more than 50 years with one functioning lung. He had the other removed as a young man because of infection. • He is the son of an Italian railway worker and a housewife. • He trained as a chemist. • He is the first non-European pope in the modern era. • He claims that adoption by homosexuals is a form of discrimination against children but believes that condoms "can be permissible" to prevent infection. • In 2001 he washed and kissed the feet of Aids patients in a hospice. • He speaks fluent Italian, as well as Spanish and German. • Until now he has been living in a small flat, eschewing a formal bishop's residence. • He told Argentinians not to travel to Rome to celebrate if he was appointed but to give their money to the poor instead. • He is believed to have been the runner-up in the last papal conclave in 2005. • He has co-written a book, in Spanish, called Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra (On Heaven and Earth).
Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs. Images and Extracts from Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs From the “De SS. Martyrum Cruciatibus” of the Rev. Father Galliano, translated and adapted by A. R. Allinson, M.A. The book is illustrated with 46 somewhat gruesome plates. I note that the text clearly claims in more than one place that the Jews crucified Christ, even though the Gospels are quite clear that it was the Romans and not the Jews.
The book first appeared in 1591; the copper-plate engravings were engraved by Antonio Tempesta of Firenza (Florence) after the designs of Giovanni de Guerra of Modena, painter to Pope Sixtus V. The edition of which I have a copy claims to be the first in English, and was produced in 1903. I am also working on a transcription of the text of this book; the table of contents only gives Chapter 1 so far. Final Reports on the Yehoash Inscription & James Ossuary. Skip to: Site Menu | Main content The Bible and Interpretation Final Reports on the Yehoash Inscription and James Ossuary from the Israeli Antiquities Authority. Religion Today Site menu: Donate |Home |Recent News |In My View |Most Viewed Articles | Articles | Commentary and Reports | Excavations | About Us |Support Us | Links |Advertise With Us Other Sites. Jesus 'died on Friday, April 3, 33AD', claim researchers, who tie earthquake data with the gospels to find the date.
By Eddie Wrenn Published: 08:13 GMT, 25 May 2012 | Updated: 14:12 GMT, 25 May 2012 Jesus died on Friday, April 3, 33AD, according to an investigation which matches his death to an earthquake. The investigation, from the International Geology Review, looked at earthquake activity around the Dead Sea, which is around 13 miles from Jerusalem. The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 27, says that as Jesus lay dying on the cross, an earthquake shook the area, scattering graves and making the sky go dark. Hieronymus Bosch' painting of The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ (c. 1500) Now researchers have looked at textual accounts, geological records and astronomical data to find the most likely date for Jesus's death.
Geologist Jefferson Williams of Supersonic Geophysical, and colleagues from the German Research Center for Geosciences, studied soil samples from the beach of Ein Gedi Spa, next to the Dead Sea. The Gospel of Matthew: "Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. Christianity and the rise of western science – ABC Religion & Ethics. It is often assumed that the relationship between Christianity and science has been a long and troubled one. Such assumptions draw support from a variety of sources. There are contemporary controversies about evolution and creation, for example, which are thought to typify past relations between science and religion. This view is reinforced by popular accounts of such historical episodes as the Condemnation of Galileo, which saw the Catholic Church censure Galileo for teaching that the earth revolved around the sun.
Adding further credence to this view of history are a few recent outspoken critics of religion who vociferously contend that religious faith is incompatible with a scientific outlook, and that this has always been the case. In spite of this widespread view on the historical relations between science and religion, historians of science have long known that religious factors played a significantly positive role in the emergence and persistence of modern science in the West. Bart Ehrman - The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon. The Origins of Christmas. The Nativity, the account of the birth of Jesus Christ, is described in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. The gospels do not give a date or time of year for the birth, and offer contradictory clues. The first reference to Jesus’ birth date is not seen until around 200, when Clement of Alexandria wrote in Stromota that Jesus was born on Pachon 25 (May 20 in the modern calendar).
Clement wrote of other thinkers who placed Jesus’ birthday at March 21, April 15, April 20 and April 21. He also mentioned that the followers of Basilides, a Gnostic teacher from Alexandria, celebrated the baptism of Christ either on the 11th or 15th of the month Tubi, which would be Jan. 6 and 10. This is the first reference to the Epiphany—Christ’s manifestation to the world, either through his baptism or through the visitation of the three magi—occurring on Jan. 6. The birth date of Christ was set at Dec. 25 at some point in the fourth century. Brother James and his Box of Tricks. OK – here's the story. At a very young age (16?
*) an Israeli guy named Oded Golan buys an ossuary from an Arab trader. He has no idea of its value but keeps it safe for thirty five years. Then, perchance, he arranges a viewing by a visiting biblical scholar – the Sorbonne's Andre Lemaire – who almost immediately identifies the inscription as referring to Jesus of Nazareth and his brother James. OK, he's a Catholic but he's a scholar, right? Now, with an artifact literally priceless, and reputed insured for $2 million, Oded ships his ossuary to Canada in a cardboard box lined with bubble wrap, where it arrives in pieces. Are you buying this? "Golan himself didn't get too excited when he heard about the cracks in his ossuary Alas, for fans of the divine salvation plan, the story of this "priceless artifact" shattered as easily as the bone box itself. Sadly, the religiously gullible will always be with us and there will always be smart criminals ready to feed their addiction. The Inscription.