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MichaelB10398 reacted to Bradypus's post in the thread Before yesterday I didn't know that . . . with
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A very different time. I was grilled at both ends of the Camino. In SJPDP I was refused a credencial partly because I arrived without a letter of introduction from a Catholic priest and was not a member of a recognised confraternity. The priests... -
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Holy Year and Jubilee Year are two different names for essentially the same thing. The term 'jubilee' comes from the Old Testament/the Jewish faith, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_in_the_Catholic_Church has a really good article...
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Ditto....cellphone (or any electronic device, GPS, television etc.), backpack, shoes, clothing, sunglasses, sleeping bag and so on. If you look at the countries of origin you see that they are manufactured, mined etc. by people who indeed live...
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I am really curious.... why worry about something that you can literally change nothing about because all involved are long gone. and meanwhile, every time you look at your phone, do you struggle since the people who mine the minerals for that...
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Or perhaps they may have been more worried about slaver raids from the Barbary Coast or elsewhere. I find your accusations against the Church and against Spain (!!!) to be facile and shallow. In the eyes of the Church, nobody is "ordinary", but...
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Discussion of Religion. Truth is that historically, those "ordinary people" are the very ones who brought up the beauty of these churches. You are assuming a divergence between Church and Church that is anachronistic. The Church is the...
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Going back to money and the "ethics" question, some more background information may be helpful for the discussion. The info quoted below must be basic common knowledge; it's in Wikipedia for example ("Construction of Gothic cathedrals"). The text...
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Apropos of nearly nothing but I refer m’learned friends to the sage words of Phil Gaston reflecting on this modern age and not the cruelties of the past: The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts, They blasted and dug with their sweat...
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I have a notion that thousands of people died during the construction of most of these great edifices. Most of those great churches, palaces and fortresses took many decades, some centuries, to build. Lots and lots of people will have died over...
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And let's not forget: Christians in Spain (and elsewhere) under Islamic rule ... With regard to 'stolen wealth from indigenous peoples,' in the context of the Spanish Empire, we have some work by historians Regina Grafe and Alejandra Irigoin...
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