You're awesome Baker! Thanks for doing a great job For G+C ! Salute !
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Does this have to do with Global Trust Estate ? I hope the pope loses his self proclaimed ownership over the ship. Vatican must fall !
"Urban VIII's papacy covered 21 years of the Thirty Years' War, (1618-1648), and was an eventful one even by the standards of the day. He canonized Elizabeth of Portugal, Andrew Corsini and Conrad of Piacenza, and issued the papal bulls of canonization for Ignatius of Loyola (founder of the Society of Jesus,"Jesuits") and Francis Xavier, (also a Jesuit ) who had been canonized by his predecessor, Pope Gregory XV.
Despite an early friendship and encouragement for his teachings, Urban VIII was responsible for summoning the scientist and astronomer Galileo to Rome in 1633 to recant his work.
Urban VIII practiced nepotism on a grand scale; various members of his family were enormously enriched by him, so that it seemed to contemporaries as if were establishing a Barberini dynasty.[5] He elevated his brother Antonio Marcello Barberini (Antonio the Elder) and then his nephews Francesco Barberini and Antonio Barberini (Antonio the Younger) to Cardinal. He also bestowed upon their brother, Taddeo Barberini, the titles Prince of Palestrina, Gonfalonier of the Church, Prefect of Rome and Commander of Sant'Angelo. Historian Leopold von Ranke estimated that during his reign, Urban VIII's immediate family amassed 105 million scudi in personal wealth.[6]
Engraving of Pope Urban VIII
Urban VIII was a skilled writer of Latin verse, and a collection of Scriptural paraphrases as well as original hymns of his composition have been frequently reprinted.
The 1638 papal bull Commissum Nobis protected the existence of Jesuit missions in South America by forbidding the enslavement of natives who were at the Jesuit Reductions.[7][8] At the same time, Urban VIII repealed the Jesuit monopoly on missionary work in China and Japan, opening these countries to missionaries of other orders and missionary societies.[9]
Urban VIII issued a 1624 papal bull that made the use of tobacco in holy places punishable by excommunication;[10] Pope Benedict XIII repealed the ban one hundred years later.[11]"
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Red Rabbit (2002) is a bestselling novel by Tom Clancy. It incorporates the 1981 plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II. It made it on to the New York Times bestseller list.
The abridged book on CD released in 2002 was read by Dennis Boutsikaris.
The unabridged book on CD released in 2002 was read by Derrick Hagon.
Plot summary
Jack Ryan, from Baltimore, former U.S. Marine, Naval Academy history professor and author, turned CIA analyst, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the British Secret Intelligence Service help with transporting a Russian defector and his family to the United States. The defector tells of a KGB plan to kill newly selected Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in Rome from Poland, the first non-Italian pontiff in centuries. The assassination is ordered by Yuri Andropov, the head of the KGB, out of concern of the Pope's support of the Polish Solidarity trade union and democracy movement. Should Poland wiggle out of the Soviet sphere of influence, Andropov lacks confidence he can crush it with military force as the Russians did three decades earlier with the 1956 Hungarian uprising or the "Prague Spring" in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and that idea is ruled out as the new conservative Republican American President, Ronald Reagan, is not as relaxed as his predecessors towards Soviet aggression. While Andropov gets universal support from the Politburo and senior members of the KGB, he does not calculate one factor, Captain Oleg Zaitzev, a junior officer in the KGB, whom, although not told of the plot, pieces it together when transmitting one-time pad coding to the KGB chief of station in Italy. Zaitzev, who secretly reads a Bible and honors the Russian Orthodox Christian faith, is haunted he will be doomed to Hell for participating in a conspiracy to kill a man who did nothing to him or his native country. Ed Foley, a CIA agent assigned to Moscow, frequently takes the same subway as Zaitzev, and his better clothing causes Zaitzev to realize he is an American when he sees and passes him by. Zaitzev slips notes inside Foley's pocket to wear certain colored ties on a specific days of the week if he wishes to communicate. A careful game must ensue to ensure both men are genuine and not "dangles", with Foley ultimately communicating with CIA Headquarters that Zaitzev is a "rabbit" (one seeking defection and immediate exit from the country), along with his wife and young daughter. Other themes explored are Jack Ryan's adjustment to being stationed in England while his wife Cathy gets a job as an eye surgeon in a British hospital, Andropov's Politburo service under the waning years of the Era of Stagnation and a doddering Soviet general secretary of the Communist Party, Leonid Breznev, as well as shortages in the Soviet economy and its drab existence for the majority of its populace, whilst the Politburo and other select elites live in places as nicely furnished as any of the "Western capitalists" they denounce.
What an incredible piece of artwork that was. I usually will not watch something like that but someone put a ton of time into that and it was futuristic and very creative !