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also had the gift of prophecy. He was able to read consciences and could foretell a person's vocation. He died on January 31, 1888. When he died, all the people of Turin came onto the streets in honor of him. On April 1, 1934, Pope Pius XI announced him a saint. Pope Pius said that through Bosco, extraordinary things became ordinary. People were drawn to Saint John Bosco because he was a man whose life revolved around charity. He always tried to inspire the youth to achieve greatness. Total, John Bosco

of comparative anatomy, Cuvier was able to reconstruct almost any animal from fragmentary remains by applying his principle of the correlation of parts.” The Catholic Church only began to accede to the idea of evolution during the reign of Pope Pius XII. The PBS website on its evolution series contains a quote on the acceptance of evolution by Pope John Paul II. He wrote a papal letter in 1996 saying that the amount of research completed on the subject of evolution is “a significant argument in

The Worldwide Influence of St. Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas was born in the year 1225 into an incredibly Catholic family in a small town in Italy. As Thomas Aquinas grew up, he was very smart and was very interested in the catholic faith and philosophy and ultimately became a teacher of all these things. Thomas Aquinas proved that he was an important historical figure over his life time by being a leader in the Catholic Church , writing The Summa and spreading his beliefs. Thomas Aquinas proved

the diplomatic policies instituted by Pope Pius XII during World War II have been a source of great controversy. The Pontiff has been christened by many as "Hitler's Pope," a Nazi sympathizer who abstained from allotting responsibility to the Nazi regime for their heinous acts. Additionally, critics have condemned the Pope for not urging Catholics to resist against the influence of the Third Reich. Nonetheless, the appeasement attitude adopted by Pope Pius XII was not due to a closeted support of Nazism

Illinois, by the Rev. Elaine Gallagher Gehrmann:   Most of us know that the Roman Catholic church teaches that life begins at conception, and yet most of us don't know that this is a relatively recent change. It wasn't until 1869 that Pope Pius IX decreed that "ensoulment" takes place at conception. Up until then, the Catholic church had taught that "life" begins at 40 days gestation for a male and 80 days for a female, and therefore abortions before those 40 or 80 day periods were not viewed

Is it possible for a Pope to be infallible? When one looks at events, such as the Holocaust, the answer of this question becomes twofold. Were Pope Pius XII’s actions an attempt to save the Catholic Church from persecutions or a lack of understanding of Hitler’s ethnic cleansing? Nearly six million Jews were slaughtered during the Holocaust. When the world became aware of the mass murders that were taking place in Europe, World War II became a moral obligation rather than a fight for power.

With all the glory and the splendour that some countries may have experienced, never has history seen how only only one man, Napoleon, brought up his country France from its most tormented status, to the very pinnacle of its height in just a few years time. He was a military hero who won splendid land-based battles, which allowed him to dominate most of the European continent. He was a man with ambition, great self-control and calculation, a great strategist, a genius; whatever it was, he was simply

Historical heroes are defined as people who not only stood for ideals and principles they believed in and fought for, they did something more than what was expected of them. Those heroes did not leave a mark on just one person. They left a mark on the world, putting their name in the history books for the love of something bigger than themselves. Giuseppe Mazzini was a man who learned at the age of twenty-one those who have ideals should fight for the things they believe in because they have the

“If you can’t feed one hundred people, then just feed one.” This is just one of the many quotes Mother Teresa gave to the people about her life works of helping people who are less fortunate. Mother Teresa devoted her life to caring for people who needed help. It was not always easy for Mother Teresa. She was taunted by others for helping the poor. Despite her agony, Mother Teresa delivered global charity and kindness, demonstrated saintly intercessions, and attracted miracles; consequently, she

Niccolo Machiavelli teaches us that establishing and/or founding new orders and modes it can be difficult to enforce when acquiring new principalities but it also a necessity to keep the state and secure it. New orders are “more difficult to handle, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than to put oneself at the head of introducing new orders” (23). With new orders can come great success, for it is tough to achieve greater success than their predecessors by just imitating what