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Although the new Duke of Orleans was the wealthiest man in Europe, he was wildly popular with the French public. The house of Orleans had been the liberal voice of France for 150 years. Cousins of the French kings, the dukes opposed the monarchy s absolute power and the Catholic Church s monopoly on education and supported the aspirations of the growing middle class. Radicals talked of making the new duke regent or even king. 

From the Shorter Form of the Holy Eucharist, in Liturgy of the Liberal Catholic Church, 5th edition, 1983. 

Catholic Church). The sentence, however, was modified to one of perpetual imprisonment, and he was confined in the Castle of San Leo, where he died in 1795, after four years of imprisonment, in what manner is not known. 

In spite of the fact that magical practices were incorporated into Christian ritual and belief, early Christian theologians began to define magic as heretical and separate from religion. As the Catholic Church came to dominate Western culture in the Middle Ages, this view became the accepted norm. The practice of magic, however, did not stop. 

In the seventeenth century Europe was also split between the Catholic and the Protestant religions and the two groups were often at war with each other. Although formed primarily of Protestants and frowned on by the Catholic Church, the Rosicrucians offered a middle... 

Louis Guenin in Science says, Zygotic personhood, which does collide with embryo research, is an implausible contradiction of the Catholic church s magisterium for most of its history. Until 1869, the... 

In order to create a big Navy, Henry VIII of England needed money which he got by confiscating the properties of Roman Catholic Churches and Monasteries. This money permitted him to create a Navy, which at the time of Henry s death (1547) amounted to 53 ships, all equipped with bronze cannons. With the... 

Aristotelian atomism was the only view accepted by the alchemists and the authorities (Catholic Church). Few if any references to atoms were made by alchemists in their writings. For example, in The Ordinall of Alchemy (1477) by Thomas Norton of Bristoll, atoms are mentioned once in the 123 pages (35) ... 

Rooney, John 1981. Khabar Gembira. A History of the Catholic Church in East Malaysia and Brunei (1880-1976). London Burns Oates. 

Spanish conquistadors introduced coca to Europe and the original missionaries unsuccessfully attempted to ban it use. The Catholic Church viewed its use as an act of paganism and a remnant of native religious ceremonies. Despite this position and the Church s destruction of cultured coca crops, cocas widespread use among many isolated cultures prevented significant... 

The civilization of Europe had known nothing like these novel drugs of Mexico, at least not in recorded history. Similar miraculous powers were attributed, in a way, to the Elements in the Mass and the Catholic Church in Mexico was quick to perceive this, to it, alarming parallel. But belief in the divinity of the Sacrament called for an act of faith, whereas the Mexican plants spoke for themselves. 

Probably the earliest example of bone replacement dates to 1668, when the Dutch physician Job van Meekeren (1611-66) transplanted a section of a dog s cranium into the skull of a soldier who had been wounded in battle. The implantation was apparently successful, but the solider later asked to have it removed. He had been told by the Catholic Church that the surgery was an affront to God because animal tissue had been inserted into the human body. 

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