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| | The Vatican |
 | | In view of the peculiar political position of the pope in Rome, the careful guarding of the Vatican presents special difficulties; but, despite the objectionable attitude of the Italian police commissioners in the Borgo, few contretemps are to be complained of. | | | The secret, semipublic and public consistories are held either in the Sala Concistoriale or in the Sala Regia. | | | This topic -- with an emphasis on the Vatican Archives and the Vatican Library -- will be treated in a separate article. |
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http://www.catholicity.com/encyclopedia/v/vatican.html
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| | Blogcritics.org: Lauryn Hill blasts Vatican audience |
| | I think Lauryn Hill should not have attended the event at all if she had such strong views about the vatican and using that opportunity to attack the vatican is just daft. | | | But Hill's criticisms are valid and need to be said LOUDLY until the institution changes and puts Jesus' mandate over its leaders' vile quest for self-perpetuation at any price. | | | This cannot be said enough by enough people. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/15/000916.php
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| | The film footage of the event, which is conserved in the archives of Vatican Radio, is an irreplaceable testimony of the event in the history of the Church and telecommunications. | | | As it was in 1931, it is in 1996: Vatican Radio broadcasts the voice of the Successor of Peter to the City and to the World. | | | To speak about the birth of Vatican Radio and the twelfth of February, 1931, is easy enough. |
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http://www.vatican.va/news_services/radio/multimedia/storia_ing.html
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| | What Lauryn Hill told the Vatican |
| | Former Fugees star Hill, 28, said she accepted her invitation only so she could protest at child sex scandals in the United States. | | | She said: "What I said was the truth. | | | Hill, who is married to reggae legend Bob Marley's son Rohan, set a record for female artists in 1999 when she won five Grammy awards for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which sold more than six million copies. |
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http://www.snapnetwork.org/news/vatican/lauryn_hill_vatican.htm
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| | Vatican Palace (from Vatican City) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Presents the story of the Vatican Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the Renaissance. | | | From the Vatican, the pope directs the government of his church, which has more than one... | | | Comprehensive news from Vatican City, Palestine, and around the world. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-209757?ct=
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| | Vatican Hill Photo Gallery by Brian Shumsky at pbase.com |
| | He was entombed on the hill and the early Christians eventually received permission to mark the spot. | | | The obelisk remains to this day and it is reasonable to believe that Peter saw the obelisk before he was crucified upside-down on his cross. | | | The Swiss Guards have been the Pope's personal bodyguards since 1506. |
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http://www.pbase.com/shumsky/vatican
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| | The Vatican City |
| | After the signing of the Lateran Treaty the Pope, for the first time since 1870, came out of the Vatican. | | | The name of the Vatican City comes from the name of the hill on which it is located, Vatican Hill. | | | A new Concordat was signed between the Italian Government and the Vatican in 1984 in Villa Madama. |
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http://www.italycyberguide.com/Geography/cities/rome2000/vatican.htm
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| | Scholastic News: Remembering Pope John Paul II |
| | During the 1800's, Italy's separate states were unified into one nation and the pope lost control over the Papal States. | | | The Vatican became the chief papal residence when the papal court returned from France in 1377. | | | The popes believed that Italy was in unlawful possession of their city. |
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http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/pope/articles/index.asp?article=grolier
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| | The Whore of Babylon? |
| | Well, as James Akin points out: "Regardless of what it had in the past, the modern Vatican is not fantastically wealthy. | | | In St. John's time, Vatican Hill was a cemetery outside of the city of Rome - the location of the catecombs in which Christians hid during the centuries of persecution. | | | All the early bishops of Rome (the ancient popes) conducted Masses there under Vatican Hill during the first three centuries of the Church. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5743/rev17.html
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| | Vatican City (Holy See) |
| | On May 13, 1981, a Turkish terrorist shot the pope in St. Peter's Square, the first assassination attempt against the pontiff in modern times. | | | The Vatican City State, sovereign and independent, is the survivor of the papal states that in 1859 comprised an area of some 17,000 sq mi (44,030 sq km). | | | The new accord affirmed the independence of Vatican City but ended a number of privileges that the Catholic Church had in Italy, including its status as the state religion. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108136.html
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| | Catholic World News (CWN) |
| | God has been a witness to the corruption of his leadership, of the exploitation and abuses by the clergy." | | | Her J'Accuse was a not-entirely-coherent mixture of old-style Protestant polemic ("I don't believe in God's representatives on earth") and contemporary invective against the corruption exemplified by the clergy abuse scandal. | | | Perhaps she can be an invited member of a Vatican ecumenical dialogue commission to iron out differences and create an acceptable liturgical dance compromise that would be appropriately inclusive of all those who have been disenfranchised. |
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http://www.cwnews.com/offtherecord/offtherecord.cfm?task=singledisplay&recnum=1368
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| | At Vatican, Lauryn Hill speaks on child abuse |
| | "I realize some of you may be offended by what I'm saying, but what do you say to the families who were betrayed by the people in whom they believed?" La Repubblica newspaper quoted Hill as saying. | | | Hill read a statement criticizing the church and its leaders during the Saturday night concert, where she was a featured performer. | | | They quoted her as saying there was "no acceptable explanation for defending the church." |
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http://www.nobodysmiling.com/hiphop/news/66647.php
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| | Religion Headlines: Lauryn Hill Lashes Out at Catholic Church |
| | LaunchYahoo: (The Associated Press) Lauryn Hill Speaks Out on Child Abuse | | | Hill declared that she does "not believe in representatives of God on earth" and referred to pedophile priest scandals with her comment; "God has been a witness to the corruption of his leadership, of the exploitation and abuses... | | | She is married to reggea legend Bob Marley's son; Rohan Marley, with whom she has a son and a daughter. |
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http://www.freewebs.com/agapepath/news/1.html
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| | Rolling Stone : Hill Blasts Catholic Church |
| | "I realize some of you may be offended by what I'm saying," Hill said, according to Italian press reports, "but what do you say to the families who were betrayed by the people in whom they believed? | | | God has been a witness to the corruption of his leadership, of the exploitation and abuses by the clergy." Hill went on to say that there was "no acceptable explanation for defending the church." | | | Neither the Vatican or Hill's label, Columbia Records, commented specifically on her tirade. |
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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5935255/hill_blasts_catholic_church
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| | Vatican City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | His principal subordinate government officials are the Secretary of State, the President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, and the Governor of Vatican City. | | | As noted, the principal figures are the Secretary of State, the President of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State, and the Governor of Vatican City. | | | Legislative power is vested in the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, led by a President. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Vatican City |
| | Vatican City was established in 1929 under terms of the Lateran Treaty, concluded by the Italian government and the papacy after many years of controversy. | | | Vatican City is the last remnant of the Papal States, a swath of territories in central Italy acquired over the centuries by the Catholic Church and governed by the pope. | | | Vatican City, independent state within Rome, Italy, that is ruled by the pope and serves as the world headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761551674/Vatican_City.html
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| | Vatican Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is the result of the Lateran_Treaty (Concordat) signed with the Italian state in 1929, which restored the diplomatic status of the Vatican as an independent city-state, which had been lost in 1860-1870 when Italy seized all papal territories. | | | Since 1929 it has been the headquarters of the State of the Vatican City. | | | The Vatican Hill (in Latin, Vaticanus Mons) is the name given, long before the founding of Christianity, to one of the hills on the side of the Tiber opposite the traditional seven hills of Rome. |
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| | Lauryn Hill Blasts Vatican During Concert -- Beliefnet.com |
| | Because she spoke in English, many in the audience, which included high-ranking Vatican prelates and Italian elite closely associated with the church, did not understand what she was saying. | | | VATICAN CITY (RNS) Hip-hop diva Lauryn Hill attacked the Catholic Church and organized religion in general on Dec. 13 at a Christmas concert in the Vatican hall where Pope John Paul II holds his weekly audiences. | | | She apparently referred to scandals about pedophile priests in the United States and elsewhere. |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/137/story_13723_1.html
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| | Basic Rome City Topography:ALRItkwRom101BasicTopo.html |
| | The central hill and where the city of Rome was founded by Romulus according to legend. | | | Outside the ancient city limits were other hills, that would later be incorporated into the city as it grew. | | | These were the site of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the southern peak and the site of the open-air Arx (where the "augurs" studied bird movements to try to determine the will of the gods) on the northern peak. |
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http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRItkwRom101BasicTopo.html
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| | The Vatican and Environs |
| | It is the parish of the Vatican City and was begun in 1572 by Vignola for the Congregation of the Footmen of the Papal Court (which no longer exist), during the reign of Pius V. It was assigned to the Agostinian Fathers. | | | The original tomb remains empty in the Vatican Grottoes where the pontiff had originally been buried while his body is on public view in a glass coffin on the main floor of the Basilica. | | | After Vignola's death the following year, it was completed by his son, Giacinto Barozzi. |
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http://www.stuardtclarkesrome.com/vatican.htm
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| | Janson Media: The Vatican Museums |
| | This volume explains how the Museums were organized in the ancient Vatican Palaces at the very time when a plethora of projects and works had been entrusted to great architects such as Bramante and Michelangelo for a wide-ranging reorganization of St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Palaces. | | | Visit the Website of The Vatican and the Vatican Museums. | | | This eight volume series showcases Roman,Etruscan, Greek, and Egyptian art in the various Vatican museums; the origins of Christian art and the Sistine Chapel; the Raphael Rooms. |
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http://www.janson.com/videos/vatican/vol1.html
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| | archives TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History |
| | Vatican City — formally State of the Vatican City, or Vatican City State is an ecclesiastical sovereign landlocked enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. | | | The Head of State is the Pope; the Heads of Government are the Secretary of State and Governor of Vatican City (sometimes referred to as the President of Vatican City). | | | The area of Vatican City is 108.7 acres. |
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http://www.dailygrail.com/archive/2005/11/5
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| | Old St. Peters in the Vatican |
| | Gaius was otherwise known as Caligula for the "small boots" he wore as a child in his father's military camp in Spain. | | | They also hated the mosquitoes but did not know them to be the disease vectors. | | | Long before there were any Caesars, the Vatican Hill belonged to the Julians, the family of the first Caesars. |
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http://www.mmdtkw.org/VOldStPeters.html
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| | SS. Peter and Paul |
| | The body of St. Peter is said to have been buried immediately after his martyrdom, upon this spot, on the Vatican hill,[1] which was then without the walls and near the suburb inhabited by the Jews. | | | The tombs of the great conquerors and lords of the world have been long since destroyed and forgotten; but those of the martyrs are glorious by the veneration which the faithful pay to their memory. | | | The remains of this apostle were removed hence into the cemetery of Calixtus, but brought back to the Vatican. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/PETEPAUL.htm
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| | Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church |
| | I made friends with two Vatican monsignors who were close to him, and one of them told me Papa Roncalli liked to say, "I'm not infallible, you know." The day the pope told me he wanted to see an end to the crusade against Communism, I knew I was covering a revolution. | | | On Capitol Hill, they spoke English in their meetings (which were open to the press) and they all answered phone calls from a man with Time magazine. | | | They labeled their documents sub secreto and people had a hard time answering their phones because the phones usually didn't work. |
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http://arcc-catholic-rights.org/kaiseressay.htm
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| | Secret Number 51 |
| | As a matter of fact, Vatican hill was never one of the proverbial "seven hills of Rome," much to some people’s surprise. | | | The question is: which one of the original seven hills of Rome was Vatican Hill where the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church is today? | | | Some prophetic interpreters, including Catholic ones, have suggested that the "seven mountains" of Revelation 17:9 refer to the city of Rome. |
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http://www.askelm.com/secrets/sec051.htm
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| | My Second Trip To Europe |
| | Most pagan statues were destroyed by early Christians during the dark ages, but this statue survived because Marcus was mistaken for the first Christian Emperor Constantine. | | | From The Colossus, wonder of the ancient world | | | Capitol Hill is home to the Palazzo dei Conservatori, one of the world's oldest museums at 500 years old. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~kickthecow/trip2/INDEX4C5.HTM?album=albums/Rome/...
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| | Musei Vaticani |
| | The Christian Museum, comprising finds from the catacombs that could not be conserved in situ, was founded by Pius IX in 1854 in the Lateran Palace and was moved to the Vatican Museums by Pope John XXIII. | | | The founding of the Vatican Museums can be traced back to 1503 when the newly-elected Pope, Julius II della Rovere, placed a statue of Apollo in the internal courtyard of the Belvedere Palace built by Innocent VIII; he brought the statue from the garden of his titular church of St. Peter in Chains. | | | In 1506 the Laocoon was added to the collection, after its discovery on the Esquiline Hill before the eyes of Giuliano di Sangallo and Michelangelo Buonarroti. |
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http://www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/0-Musei.html
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| | Allwords.com Definition of Vatican |
| | A collection of buildings on Vatican Hill in Rome, including the palace and official residence of the pope, set up as an independent papal state called Vatican City in 1929. | | | a collection of buildings on Vatican Hill in Rome, including the palace and official residence of the pope, set up as an independent papal state called Vatican City in 1929. | | | Your Query of 'Vatican' Resulted in 1 Matches |
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http://www.allwords.com/word-Vatican.html
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| | Find in a Library: The listening post; eighteen years on Vatican hill |
| | The listening post; eighteen years on Vatican hill | | | Find in a Library: The listening post; eighteen years on Vatican hill | | | To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. |
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http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/809e4c26c0af2142.html
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| | St. Peter's of Rome - Giacomo della Porta - Great Buildings Online |
| | PCD.2365.1012.0634.063, view of dome from the Vatican Museum. | | | See also the Piazza of St. Peter's page for more photos. | | | An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. |
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http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/St_Peters_of_Rome.html
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| | Galleria delle Tappezzerie |
| | And Jesus said to Simon "Do not fear, from now on you will be catching men." | | | In the background, one can recognize the Vatican hill (319K), with the towers along the wall of Leo IV, and Saint Peter's under construction. |
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