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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... 

Beers, M.J., Hittinger, R., Lamb, M., Neuhaus, R.J., Royal, R., and Sirico, R.A. 2000. The Catholic church and stewardship of creation. In Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant Wisdom on the Environment, M.B. Barkey (ed.), pp. 25-62. Grand Rapids Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. 

George Gemistos, known as Plethon, ran a Neoplatonist School in Mistra in the Peloponnese. In 1438CE, with the encouragement of Cosimo de Medici, Plethon relocated his Platonic studies to Florence. There he was outside the influence of the Roman Catholic Church and he established a humanist movement with a belief in universal Platonic religion. 

The Knights Templar could not have rebelled against a restructure or liquidation. Each knight was a monk of the Roman Catholic Church and had taken a vow of material poverty. Furthermore, if the Order had rebelled it would have had limited options for shelter. Envious monarchs continually eyed its productive land and were prepared to expropriate the assets of the Order at the first sign of any weakness in its legitimacy. 

And then there was Miya, age twenty-eight, who lived in Moto-machi, within a mile of the hypocenter. Her home lay east of the Roman Catholic church and was somewhat shielded by Motomachi Hill. Miya was eight weeks pregnant. After regaining consciousness, she learned that her husband had been killed at his place of work, but her two older children, two and five years old, were apparently unharmed and her pregnancy seemed unaffected, thin a month, however, she suffered a spontaneous abortion, accompanied by such... 

Some historically profound examples of Willful Blindness by individuals in power positions and organizations include Bemie MadoffofPonzi scheme fame the Catholic Church and pedophile priests and the medical profession refusing to... 

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