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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?”
24,200 sermon illustrations through the Roman Catholic lens
1/15 (1991): Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system.
2/14 (1903): The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
4/1 (2001): Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
2/14 (1961): Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
2/12 (2016): Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.
11/9 (694): At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
7/14 (1791): Beginning of Priestley Riots (to 17 July) in Birmingham targeting Joseph Priestley as a supporter of the French Revolution.
A master potter takes a lump of clay and shapes it with careful hands. The clay must be soft and pliable to be molded. Sometimes the potter must apply pressure, sometimes gentle touches. The clay that resists the potter's hands...
5/1 (880): The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
7/20 (1977): The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
11/11 (1961): Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
11/11 (1940): World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.
11/9 (1979): Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, detect a purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.