Deceit Of Rome

Author : Maurits Prins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 163424236X

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The Deceit of Rome by Maurits Prins Pdf

Author : Andrew J. Turner,K. O. Chong-Gossard,Frederik Juliaan Vervaet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004187757

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Private and Public Lies by Andrew J. Turner,K. O. Chong-Gossard,Frederik Juliaan Vervaet Pdf

Graeco-Roman literary works, historiography, and even the reporting of rumours were couched as if they came in response to an insatiable desire by ordinary citizens to know everything about the lives of their leaders, and to hold them to account, at some level, for their abuse of constitutional powers for personal ends. Ancient writers were equally fascinated with how these same individuals used deceit as a powerful tool to disguise private and public reality. The chapters in this collection examine the themes of despotism and deceit from both historical and literary perspectives, over a range of historical periods including classical Athens, the Hellenistic kingdoms, late republican and early imperial Rome, late antiquity, and Byzantium.

Author : Maurits Prins
Publisher : TrineDay
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781634242356

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Deceit of Rome by Maurits Prins Pdf

This no-holds-barred volume confirms the feelings of those who have always known something about the church just isn't right. Centuries of corruption continue even with the current pope, under whom many wealthy cardinals are enjoying incomprehensible luxury. Take top cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, for example, who recently spent €200.000 from a children's charity fund on the renovation of his luxurious penthouse apartment. Of course Bertone denies everything, but it's curious to see how often the Vatican's number two has been linked to financial fraud by the Italian Justice Department. According to Italian journalists Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi, millions of euros meant for charity are supposed to have been "stuck" within the administration and bureaucracy of the Roman Curia. Their sources are leaked Vatican documents, and the two people who have supposedly leaked these documents have since been arrested. These are a Spanish Opus Dei priest and a curious Italian woman, thought to be a mistress of one of the cardinals. I'm sure the pope means well, but he obviously isn't in control of the Curia of Cardinals.

Author : John North Hopkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192869586

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Forgery Beyond Deceit by John North Hopkins Pdf

What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome explores that question with a focus on forgery in ancient Rome and of ancient Rome. Its chapters reach from antiquity to the twentieth century and cover literature and art, the two areas thatpredominate in forgery studies, as well as the forgery of physical books, coins, and religious relics. The book examines the cultural, historical, and rhetorical functions of forgery that extend beyond the desire to deceive and profit. It analyses forgery in connection with related phenomena likepseudepigraphy, fakes, and copies; and it investigates the aesthetic and historical value that forgeries possess when scholarship takes seriously their form, content, and varied uses within and across cultures. Of particular interest is the way that forgeries embody a desire for the ancient and forthe recovery of the fragmentary past of ancient Rome.

Author : Jason Berry
Publisher : Crown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385531344

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Render Unto Rome by Jason Berry Pdf

AN INVESTIGATION OF EPIC FINANCIAL INTRIGUE, RENDER UNTO ROME EXPOSES THE SECRECY AND DECEIT THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE VALUES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Sunday collection in every Catholic church throughout the world is as familiar a part of the Mass as the homily and even Communion. There is no doubt that historically the Catholic Church has been one of the great engines of charity in history. But once a dollar is dropped in that basket, where does it go? How are weekly cash contributions that can amount to tens of thousands of dollars accounted for? Where does the money go when a diocese sells a church property for tens of millions of dollars? And what happens when hundreds of millions of dollars are turned over to officials at the highest ranks, no questions asked, for their discretionary use? The Roman Catholic Church is the largest organization in the world. The Vatican has never revealed its net worth, but the value of its works of art, great churches, property in Rome, and stocks held through its bank easily run into the tens of billions. Yet the Holy See as a sovereign state covers a mere 108 acres and has a small annual budget of about $280 million. No major book has examined the church’s financial underpinnings and practices with such journalistic force. Today the church bears scrutiny by virtue of the vast amounts of money (nearly $2 billion in the United States alone) paid out to victims of clergy abuse. Amid mounting diocesan bankruptcies, bishops have been selling off whole pieces of the infrastructure—churches, schools, commercial properties—while the nephew of one of the Vatican’s most powerful cardinals engaged in a lucrative scheme to profiteer off the enormous downsizing of American church wealth.

Author : James Mace
Publisher : James Mace
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440100277

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Soldier of Rome: The Legionary by James Mace Pdf

Rome's Vengeance In the year A.D. 9, three Roman Legions under Quintilius Varus were betrayed by the Germanic war chief, Arminius, and destroyed in the forest known as Teutoburger Wald. Six years later Rome is finally ready to unleash Her vengeance on the barbarians. The Emperor Tiberius has sent his adopted son, Germanicus Caesar, into Germania with an army of forty-thousand legionaries. The come not on a mission of conquest, but one of annihilation. With them is a young legionary named Artorius. For him the war is a personal vendetta; a chance to avenge his brother, who was killed in Teutoburger Wald. In Germania Arminius knows the Romans are coming. He realizes that the only way to fight the legions is through deceit, cunning, and plenty of well-placed brute force. In truth he is leery of Germanicus, knowing that he was trained to be a master of war by the Emperor himself. The entire Roman Empire held its collective breath as Germanicus and Arminius faced each other in what would become the most brutal and savage campaign the world had seen in a generation; a campaign that could only end in a holocaust of fire and blood.

Author : S. J. Keay,Simon J. Keay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520063805

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Roman Spain by S. J. Keay,Simon J. Keay Pdf

Describes the influence of the Roman Empire on Spain, and looks at society, industry, trade, architecture, and religion in Spain during Rome's rule

Author : Bill Gladhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107069749

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Rethinking Roman Alliance by Bill Gladhill Pdf

Explores the vital links between social order and cosmology by examining the concept of foedus in Roman religion and literature.

Author : Charles Edward Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Emperor's
ISBN : 0473539799

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The Arc of Dacicus by Charles Edward Williams Pdf

"Years of deceit and deception have provoked the Emperor Trajan to restore the honour of Rome on the far eastern frontiers of the Empire. The painful memories of broken treaties and shameful losses of legions compels the emperor to subdue the eastern frontiers and to impose Roman rule. Cletus the tribune learns further harsh lessons in raw power and unrelenting ambition during the arc of the vast campaign"--Back cover.

Author : M.C. HIZEDEK
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781477209813

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A Woman's Nation or Satan's Deceit... by M.C. HIZEDEK Pdf

1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSASSINATED WOMENS FEMINIST MEMBER MARY SURRAT HANGED FOR PARTICIPATIONLEADER OF GROUP FOUND HIDING IN VATICAN PAPAL GUARD Before his death Abraham Lincoln made the following statements to his trusted staff: It is not against the Americans of the South alone that I am fighting, it is even more against THE POPE OF ROME and his perfidious Jesuits and their blind and blood thirsty slaves that we have to defend ourselves The Jesuits, have not yet killed me. But they would have surely done it when I passed through their most devoted city, Baltimore, had I not defeated their plans by passing incognito a few hours before they expected me. We have the proof that the company which has been selected and organized to murder me was led by a rabid Roman Catholic, called Byrne; it was almost entirely composed of Roman Catholics; more than that, there were two disguised priests among them, to lead and encourage them. ..Abraham Lincoln And indeed the American Womens Feminist Movement were now linked and involved with the assassination of a sitting President of the United States and with a member of the American Womens Feminist Movement confirmed as guilty and hanged for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. And then, so began the atrocities of the deaths of any elected president that was not a Socialist Democratic and those atrocities and Presidential genocide lasted from 1841 until the final assassination of President Warren Harding in 1923.

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Image
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385504775

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Papal Sin by Garry Wills Pdf

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017. "The truth, we are told, will make us free. It is time to free Catholics, lay as well as clerical, from the structures of deceit that are our subtle modern form of papal sin. Paler, subtler, less dramatic than the sins castigated by Orcagna or Dante, these are the quiet sins of intellectual betrayal." --from the Introduction From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills comes an assured, acutely insightful--and occasionally stinging--critique of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy from the nineteenth century to the present. Papal Sin in the past was blatant, as Catholics themselves realized when they painted popes roasting in hell on their own church walls. Surely, the great abuses of the past--the nepotism, murders, and wars of conquest--no longer prevail; yet, the sin of the modern papacy, as revealed by Garry Wills in his penetrating new book, is every bit as real, though less obvious than the old sins. Wills describes a papacy that seems steadfastly unwilling to face the truth about itself, its past, and its relations with others. The refusal of the authorities of the Church to be honest about its teachings has needlessly exacerbated original mistakes. Even when the Vatican has tried to tell the truth--e.g., about Catholics and the Holocaust--it has ended up resorting to historical distortions and evasions. The same is true when the papacy has attempted to deal with its record of discrimination against women, or with its unbelievable assertion that "natural law" dictates its sexual code. Though the blithe disregard of some Catholics for papal directives has occasionally been attributed to mere hedonism or willfulness, it actually reflects a failure, after long trying on their part, to find a credible level of honesty in the official positions adopted by modern popes. On many issues outside the realm of revealed doctrine, the papacy has made itself unbelievable even to the well-disposed laity. The resulting distrust is in fact a neglected reason for the shortage of priests. Entirely aside from the public uproar over celibacy, potential clergy have proven unwilling to put themselves in a position that supports dishonest teachings. Wills traces the rise of the papacy's stubborn resistance to the truth, beginning with the challenges posed in the nineteenth century by science, democracy, scriptural scholarship, and rigorous history. The legacy of that resistance, despite the brief flare of John XXIII's papacy and some good initiatives in the 1960s by the Second Vatican Council (later baffled), is still strong in the Vatican. Finally Wills reminds the reader of the positive potential of the Church by turning to some great truth tellers of the Catholic tradition--St. Augustine, John Henry Newman, John Acton, and John XXIII. In them, Wills shows that the righteous path can still be taken, if only the Vatican will muster the courage to speak even embarrassing truths in the name of Truth itself.

Author : Gareth C. Sampson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473887343

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Rome, Blood & Politics by Gareth C. Sampson Pdf

This in-depth chronicle examines the series of political upheavals that led to division, violence, and civil war in the ancient Roman Republic. The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile politicians who proposed political or social reform programs, many of which culminated in acts of bloodshed on the streets of Rome itself. This began in 133 BC with the military recruitment reforms of Tiberius Gracchus, which saw him and his supporters lynched by a mob of angry Senators. Gracchus’s grim example was followed by a series of radical politicians, each with their own agenda that challenged the status quo of the Senatorial elite. Each met a violent response from elements of the ruling order, leading to murder and even battles on the streets of Rome. These bloody political clashes paralyzed the Roman state, eventually leading to its collapse. Covering the period 133–70 BC, this volume analyzes each of the key reformers, what they were trying to achieve and how they met their end, narrating the long decline of the Roman Republic into anarchy and civil war.

Author : Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2ATU

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Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Belford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000088372333

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Livy's Attitude Toward Deceit as Reflected in the Ab Urbe Condita by Elizabeth Belford Pdf

Author : Thomas Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCAL:$B296460

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A Suggestive Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans by Thomas Robinson Pdf