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Reading scripture in unity with Sacred Tradition and the teaching authority of the Church.
Key question: “How does this passage illuminate and cohere with the deposit of faith handed down through Sacred Tradition?”
24,276 sermon illustrations through the Roman Catholic lens
11/22 (1307): Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
9/2 (2010): Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are launched by the United States.
11/1 (1848): In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1/20 (1937): Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment...
8/6 (1942): Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
11/9 (1799): Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor Consulate Government.
Finnish women are the first in Europe to receive the right to vote.
12/24 (1818): The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf, Austria.
7/14 (1942): In the Wardha session of Congress, the "Quit India" resolution is approved, authorising Mahatma Gandhi to campaign for India's independence from Britain.
The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
5/8 (1963): South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.