Funeral held for Edmund Szoka, former Vatican City governor, head of Detroit archdiocese
DETROIT — Catholic leaders and faithful have packed the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit for the funeral of Edmund Szoka (SHAH'-kuh), an American cardinal who served as governor and financial administrator of the Vatican. The Mass was ...
FREEMASONRY AND THE INQUISITION
In the Europe of the early seventeenth century – a Europe no longer subject to the Church's hegemony – heresies, mysticism and mystically oriented philosophies were proliferating. There were a number of ultimately futile attempts to institutionalise the mystical experience and establish it as a new, ...